That Playing Shop press release
10th December 2008
Hartswood Films begin production this week on Playing Shop starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, the pilot episode of the first situation comedy that they have written together for the BBC. They play Eric and Jamie, two of the most dynamic, practical and driven men ever to try and run a business out of a garden shed. Convinced that everyone else involved in commerce are idiots, they think that this insight alone will make them millionaires. Armed with new computers, start-of-the-art stationery and a blogger’s contempt for the rest of mankind, all they have to do is sit back and wait for greatness to be thrust upon them.
Joining Mitchell and Webb are Geoff McGivern (Peep Show, Armstrong & Miller), Natasha Joseph (Love Soup, Skins, It’s A Girl Thing), James Bachman (The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd), Ashley Madekwe (Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, Cassandra’s Dream) and Paul Sharma (Gavin & Stacey). The comedy is directed by Martin Dennis (Coupling, Men Behaving Badly) and produced by Sue Vertue (The Cup, Coupling). The Executive Producer is Beryl Vertue. Playing Shop is a Hartswood Films Production for the BBC.
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