Undoing Martin Parker is a brand new series for BBC One co-created by writers Paul Coleman and Sian Gibson. Conleth Hill, Rosie Cavaliero, George Costigan and Sheila Reid will star alongside Sian Gibson.
Set in Manchester, 1990, the last days of Thatcher, we meet Martin Parker (Conleth Hill), a self-made impresario with the ambition of Alan Sugar and the swagger of Kilroy Silk. A man with a chain of electrical stores bearing his name, he seems to have it all. But the truth is, times are changing. He’s swimming in debt, his complicated private life is catching up with him and he’s starting to lose his power.
Undoing Martin Parker plots his downfall at the hands of all those he’s screwing over with his lust for money, sex and success. Including wife Diane (Rosie Cavaliero), father-in-law Dougie (George Costigan), mobile hairdresser Kath (Sian Gibson) and Kath’s best mate Gladys (Sheila Reid). With 90s’ big hair and big laughs to match.
Also BBC Three comedy Man Like Mobeen is set to return for fourth series. Returning to the series are Guz Khan’s titular character Mobeen and Tolu Ogunmefun as his best mate Nate, alongside Dúaa Karim as Mobeen’s younger sister Aks, Perry Fitzpatrick’s Officer Harper as well as Mark Silcox as scene-stealing Uncle Shady (obviously still calling Mobeen “b*astard”).
Viewers first met reformed drug-dealer Mobeen as he was trying to turn his life around living as a good Muslim, looking after his little sister, all whilst trying to escape his dodgy past catching up with him. Since then he’s made a fair crack at it but, in the cliff-hanger of a series three finale, he found himself banged-up behind bars with Nate, after their close friend Eight had been killed…
As they adjust to a new life inside, with familiar faces returning in very unexpected situations, Mobeen and Nate need to negotiate a new set of challenges – but can our haphazard heroes make it to the end of their sentence without causing more mayhem and come good on their dream of living a quiet life? Will Aks finally accomplish her goal of training to be a doctor, and will evil Uncle Khan keep a relatively low profile in Pakistan, or manage to torment Mobeen from afar?
