Family Business (BBC-1 2004, Jamie Foreman, Elizabeth Berrington)

Drama series. Marky Brooker is a builder with a kind-heart running his own small business. He cannot help getting involved with his customers’ domestic problems despite being beset with his own family dramas.

His son has disappeared before his first term at Oxford and his daughter is struggling with her identity. Whilst it might be easy to hide behind his clients’ problems, he more than anyone should know that you can’t paper over the cracks forever.

Marky’s adoptive parents, Iris and Arthur also live with the Brooker family, another regular was Marky’s single sister Rachel. As much as the series was about Marky and his family it was also about the lives of the people he came across during his working life.

production details
UK / BBC One – Tiger Aspect / 6×60 minute episodes / Broadcast 11 February – 17 March 2004

Writer: Tony Grounds / Producer: Barney Reisz / Executive Producers: Greg Brenman, Rebecca De Souza, Gareth Neame / Director: Tom Shankland

cast
JAMIE FOREMAN as Marky
ELIZABETH BERRINGTON as Jessica
TREVOR PEACOCK as Arthur
CLAIRE RUSHBROOK as Rachel
MEG WYNN OWEN as Iris
ABBIE NICHOLS as Lauren