We will not look forward to extra Aimee Lou Wooden-style comedy, which is able to quickly be hitting our screens within the type of the BBC TV collection Daddy Points. The perfect half? The trailer has actually simply dropped – you possibly can watch it under.
The Intercourse Training star will lead the present alongside David Morrissey. Collectively, they’re going to play the fairly dysfunctional father-daughter duo Gemma and Malcolm, who should navigate their very own points, in addition to Gemma’s unplanned being pregnant.
Here is the whole lot we all know up to now in regards to the six-episode collection Daddy Points.
What’s Daddy Points about?
In accordance with the BBC’s plot synopsis, “The present follows Gemma (Aimee Lou Wooden), who lives for the weekend when she will get blasted and get together laborious in Stockport, Manchester. However after becoming a member of the mile-high membership with a random hook-up on her means again from a vacation to Portugal, she’s pregnant, and it could not come at a worse time.
“The one particular person Gemma has left in her life is her dad Malcolm (David Morrissey), who’s kind-hearted however ineffective – he cannot load a washer, boil an egg or change the Wi-Fi password. Malcolm is affected by the collapse of his household and dwelling in a bedsit for divorced males. Which is how Gemma and her dad find yourself dwelling in Gemma’s flat. She wants assist at a crucial time in a girl’s life, he wants assist microwaving rice with out it exploding.”
It looks like a coming-of-age story, however for all ages. “At its coronary heart Daddy Points is a basic odd couple comedy about two humorous, deeply flawed characters, who simply occur to be father and daughter,” the present’s bio reads. “Alongside the way in which there might be relationship disasters and failed romances, poisonous friendships and messy household dynamics, plus a dangerously sociopathic antenatal instructor.”
Signal us up.
Who has been solid in Daddy Points?
Becoming a member of Aimee and David might be Sharon Rooney (Barbie, My Mad Fats Diary), Taj Atwal (Line of Responsibility), Tom Stourton, Susan Lynch (Intercourse Training), Lauren O’Rourke (Henpocalypse), Cyril Nri, Cora Kirk (Your Christmas Or Mine), Damien Molony (Brassic), Sherrie Hewson, Humphrey Ker, David Reed (Ghosts), Perry Fitzgerald (Line of Responsibility), Claire Keelan (The Journey) and Susannah Fielding.