Daybreak French is filming a brand new six-part sitcom Can You Hold a Secret?
Written by Simon Mayhew-Archer (This Nation) the BBC comedy additionally stars Mark Heap, Craig Roberts and Mandip Gill.
Filmed and set within the West Nation, Can You Hold a Secret? is the story of an odd little household you haven’t met but, however that you simply already know – a sitcom that locations Daybreak French in the midst of some mischief we will all relate to.
French performs widow Debbie Fendon – granny, garden bowler, tinpot dictator – who will cease at nothing to ensure her household’s protected. Sadly, more often than not the particular person they really want defending from is her. When her hermit-like husband William (Mark Heap) unexpectedly dies, she makes an outlandish determination that can put the household beneath extra strain than ever earlier than.
As a result of Debbie isn’t truly a widow and William didn’t actually die – he was simply mistakenly declared lifeless and the 2 retirees discovered themselves staring down the barrel of a possibility too good to go up. Only a few months hiding out within the loft ready for the life insurance coverage to pay out after which they’ll reside out their golden years in peace.
This all proves a bit a lot for his or her simply frazzled son Harry (Craig Roberts) who – regardless of his emotional shortcomings – has managed to amass a household of his personal and a doubtlessly life-changing insurance coverage payout from his father’s ‘demise’. What’s particularly tough for Harry is that his pathologically pragmatic spouse Neha (Mandip Gill) is an area police officer and, if she finds out about her in-laws’ fraudulent methods, the Fendons might need a problem. Clearly Harry – reunited with a dad he’s simply buried and the truth that his mother and father have became a pensioner model of Bonnie and Clyde – abruptly has much more to juggle. Sandwiched between two generations of toddlers, he finds himself navigating a quite common stage of life – solely this time, it’s legal.
An Australian broadcaster is but to be confirmed.
