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 Showing:
BBC1 July
Interviews with Dean
Lennox Kelly and Neil
Dudgeon.
Hugo Speer,
Neil Dudgeon, Dean Lennox Kelly, Cal Macaninch, Will Mellor and Mark
Womack star as six postmen - workmates and friends who share each
other's lives – in Sorted, a new series for BBC ONE. Tracy-Ann Oberman
also joins the cast in her first major TV series since leaving
EastEnders.
Set in Manchester and written by
Danny Brocklehurst, Sorted lifts the lid on the complicated, funny and
emotive lives of this motley gang; exposing their secrets, passions and
fears and delving into their lives, loves, work, family and everything
in between. But above all, it's about being mates.
Producer Steve Lightfoot (No
Angels, Casualty) says: "The warmth, wit and camaraderie of these
very ordinary blokes ensures they can see each other through whatever
life throws at them. It's very real, with powerful, emotional storylines
which will hook viewers in to their world.
"The sorting office is
where the boys come together at the start of every day. They're a tight
knit group, but with their shift finishing in the afternoon, there's
plenty of time to see what they get up to away from the Post Office.
"There are storylines which
run throughout the series but each episode focuses in on one of the
six."
Sorted is the first six-part
major series from writer Danny Brocklehurst, whose previous credits
include Clocking Off, Shameless and The Stretford Wives.
Danny Brocklehurst explains:
"What this was supposed to be was very much in that Clocking Off or
The Lakes kind of vein of telling stories about people who actually –
other than in soaps – don't make it onto television that often.
"It's about ordinary,
working-class lives. I wanted to tell stories with dignity and humanity
and truth about ordinary people, and even though the stories are not
always life and death, they are really important to those characters.
"I think that there's not
enough of that type of telly on these days," Danny continues.
"People want to sit down at the end of the day and watch something
that they see a bit of themselves in."
And he welcomed the chance to
write a series predominantly about men. "It's been really
refreshing because you can tap into that side of you that you understand
– because obviously I am a man! I've never really written blokey
blokes before in this kind of way.
"There are thousands of
postmen in the UK they're part of everyone's lives. Since I started
working on the series I notice them everywhere.
"I interviewed a lot of
postmen just to try and get a flavour of the world and to try and really
understand it and how it all works.
"I knew nothing about this
before, even though I have an uncle who's a postman, but I got told some
funny little stories about things that happened; one of which made it
into the show - the battle of the radios in episode one. That's from
real life."
Sorted was filmed in Stockport.
The six-part series is directed by Iain B Macdonald (Bodies, Hotel
Babylon) and Marc Jobst (Casualty, North Face). The executive producer
is Sally Haynes.
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