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Just saw a trailer, looks like it could be a sort of "Big Deal" type programme, says coming soon on BBC


Steve Coogan to star in new BBC sitcom from Royle Family writer

Apr 22 2008

STEVE COOGAN is to play a gambling addict in a BBC1 comedy drama.

The Alan Partridge and Saxondale comic stars as Bing, a family man with a betting problem, in three-part series Sunshine.

Bernard Hill, who played King Theoden in The Lord Of The Rings, is his dad, George.

Royle Family writer Craig Cash will co-write, direct and star in the drama.

A BBC spokesman said: "Sunshine is a heart-warming story about how, when you reach rock bottom, the only thing that matters are the people you love."

Filming has begun on location near Stockport, Cheshire, and in Salford, near Manchester.

Sunshine is due to be shown this autumn.

coogan is a legend as alan patridge but tbh im not a great fan of most of his other work. saxondale was ok but not in the patridge class imo.

hopefully this new show will be good and is bound to have a lot of dry humour similar to the royal family (didnt caroline aherne and craig cash )

bumpity bump, just watched episode 1 on iplayer ... looks like it could be quite decent.

Its called Sunshine.

I watched it tonight and yes definitely worth watching for the bathroom scene alone  ;D

Was going well until the end of the illegal bookies scene. Just too far fetched for me. Shame.
I'm seeing his stand up tomorrow night.

sad episode tonight .... great show though imo.

have not seen episode 2 will watch in the morning but enjoyed the first episode though agree with josedinho regards the illegal bookie scene. it was very predictable and these type of places dont exist any longer

Coogan was much better this week - the first episode was all Alan Partridge but he actually did some acting this week.

And the guy playing the grandad is an immense actor - that scene where he pretended that he took the kid's money to take to the bank was fantastic.

He was fantastic as Yosser Hughes.

Agree about Bernard Hill's acting ... superb.

Just watched the last episode ...


What a superb series, funny and very moving.  British comedy drama at its finest.

I enjoyed it, cried twice.

Agreed. Multi-dimensional and bitter-sweet.

Nice job.

Enjoybable. 2nd episode was the best though.

Just watched the 1st episode-loved it!!!

The only thing for me about Coogan tho is everytime I see him I see Partridge- he still has the same mannerisms and goofiness!!!

The Family, best program EVER.

If you were to explain to someone what it was about you'd probably struggle to get past: "it's a fly on the wall documentary about a family who have a few rows and discussions and stuff but they dont really do anything and nothing much happens"

theres nothing exceptional at all about this program but i think it's blinding, brilliant to watch, inexplicably compelling.

maybe because it's not all the reality tv big brother crying and acting like an asshole for the sake of the cameras sort of show, sometimes they act like assholes but you get the feeling that it's more for the reason that sometimes people just act like assholes not because they're all desperate to be in Hello magazine.