EXCLUSIVE: My5, the streaming service run by ViacomCBS’s UK community Channel 5, has acquired British comedy sequence Hapless, which first began life as a self-released mission on Amazon Prime Video.
The six-part sequence was created, written, and produced by Gary Sinyor and stars Outlander and Paddington actor Tim Downie as Paul Inexperienced, a journalist on the UK’s fourth most profitable Jewish newspaper.
The sequence first launched on Amazon final 12 months underneath the title The Jewish Enquirer, however with business manufacturing slowing down in the course of the coronavirus pandemic, Sinyor noticed a chance to pitch the present to a broadcaster. It goes stay on My5 in March
Hapless co-stars Geoffrey McGivern (Little Dorrit) and Lucy Montgomery (Tracey Ullman’s Present) as Inexperienced’s father and sister, whereas Josh Howie (Name Me Alvy) options because the journalist’s finest good friend. Sinyor himself offers the voice of Inexperienced’s narrow-minded editor.
Right here’s the logline: Obsessed together with his personal view of reality and equity, Paul aspires to larger issues – however his enquiring nature causes chaos and offense in a society the place offense is definitely taken. With a sweary sister all the time on his case, a neurotic and desperately single finest good friend getting in the best way, and a teasing father behaving like an enormous brother, a day of calamity is just ever simply across the nook.
Sinyor stated: “Hapless’ was impressed by U.S. reveals like Seinfeld and UK sitcoms like Rising Damp and Hancock. Once I learnt that broadcasters had been looking out for contemporary, accomplished content material, I received in contact within the hope that somebody would see its potential.”
Sinyor directed Renee Zellweger’s 1999 movie The Bachelor, whereas in 2017, he wrote, directed, and produced psychological thriller The Unseen.
