COMEDY
Common Ground
Familiar faces and rising stars come together to create an exciting new series of comedy shorts on Sky Atlantic HD
Common Ground’s series of ten short films are linked by the same South London location, and will feature the likes of Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Johnny Vegas (Benidorm), Jessica Hynes (Twenty Twelve), Rufus Jones (Hunderby) and Katy Brand (Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show).
Emmy®-nominated Dance stars as a retired tour manager in Floyd. Flamboyant and free-spirited, he is still living the rock’n’roll lifestyle and proves to be more than a handful for his uptight daughter Becky (Amelia Bullmore, Scott & Bailey) and her husband Jack (Hugo Speer, Bedlam), especially when their daughter wants to attend a music festival.
Johnny Vegas writes and stars in Rupert, a tale set entirely in a tattoo parlour after Rupert’s (Vegas) father’s funeral. Rupert’s girlfriend (Celia Pacquola, Laid) has visa issues, and is putting pressure on him to move to Australia. Amid all of this, they receive an unexpected visit from the local gangster, Sunshine Simon (Tom Davis, The Warm Up Guy) and his sidekick, Spinks (Paul Kaye, Stella).
Hynes, meanwhile, plays issue-avoiding and terminally vague local councillor Patricia David in Patricia. She inadvertently causes a traffic accident
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while she is cycling to work, faces an angry mob when she arrives and continues with her average day at the office regardless.
Rufus Jones and Dan Skinner (The Angelos Epithemiou Show) take on the writing and acting reins for Bill & Sinclair. This is the story of a city banker (Jones) who leaves his job under a cloud but keeps up the charade of going to work anyway, much to the amusement of his brother Sinclair (Skinner). In financial dire straits, they come up with a mutually beneficial money making scheme.
Katy Brand’s painfully politically correct Eleanor follows a woman who loses her organic produce shop to local businessman Gino (Gordon Kennedy, Robin Hood). She lives in the flat upstairs and must endure her shop being turned in to a successful greasy spoon cafe.
Other highlights include Starlings’ Brendan Coyle as DCI Tommy Cockburn in Sunshine Simon, Daniel Lawrence Taylor (A Touch of Cloth) as a former member of So Solid Crew in Nell, Ted & Marlon, plus an appearance from BAFTA® winner Liz Smith (The Royle Family) in Colin by Simon Day and Andrew Collins (Grass).
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