Miles Jupp

In 2006, Miles Jupp decided to jack it all in and embarked on a trip to India in an attempt to become a cricket journalist. All he had to do, he thought, was blag his way into the English press corps and look like he knew what he doing.

Steve and Nicky are a couple on their second marriage, and after a diet of TV relocation shows and glossy lifestyle magazines, they make the decision to get out of the city and the rat race and settle down to a simple existence in the beautiful Yorkshire Moors. However, the couple quickly realise that they have been watching a `best of' reel of property successes, and that they have inadvertently bought a property in what the locals call `The Dip', a place with no internet but plenty of potential for flooding. Thanks to amoral estate agents, architects and builders trying to squeeze as much money out of them as possible, they soon realise that their finances mean there is no way back to their old life. Steve and Nicky must put on a brave face as they fight to stop their friends in the city being right about their bad move.

None of the friends who play dominoes every week in their local pub has a clue what erotic novels, formerly 'Chick Lit', now known as mummy porn consist of. Local newspaper editor David (Christian McKay) is astonished at the rate that his highly educated wife Jen (Caroline Catz) devours these books; pub manager Chris's (Tom Palmer) mother finds them liberating; Marcus's (Miles Jupp) bookshop is kept solvent by them and Justin's (David Troughton) English Literature class seems to know far more about them than is necessary or desirable. But David's ignorance of the genre doesn't last long - his scary boss Claire (Niamh Cusack) has decided that not only will he host a new arts show on the paper's local TV station, but that one of the topics will be mummy porn. Marcus meanwhile is making himself unpopular with his life and business partner Geoffrey (James Wilby), by trying to dissuade Diana (Cathy Tyson), a local poet from buying the latest mummy hit; 'She Came in Chains'. Diana challenges Marcus to write an erotic novel, which he loftily refuses. But when the pub is faced with imminent closure he is prepared to persuade the other two dominoes players that David's insane scheme - born out of his recent study of the topic, to co-write a mummy porn novel to save the pub is a good idea.

Alan leaves behind his comfortable existence and heads to the north to ask whether, in this once united kingdom, a 'schasm' has formed between north and south.

Charles Dickens’ magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters from “A Christmas Carol.”