EMPTY- BBC 2

Empty is a brand new sitcom for BBC 2 starring Gregor Fisher and Billy Boyd.  It starts on Thursday 28th February at 10.00pm.

Jacky (Gregor Fisher) and Tony (Billy Boyd) are two ordinary guys who work for a property maintenance company, clearing out empty or fire-damaged flats and making simple repairs.

Jacky, the elder of the two, is a gifted, intelligent man. But all through his life he has chosen the path of least resistance. He has opted out of education and opportunity, happy to lose himself in his books and his thoughts and work away at a job that allows him to live a life of the mind.

Tony, the younger of the two, has an unhappy home life. His marriage is collapsing and he feels he hasn’t got what he deserves out of life. His own intellect, which he feels is essentially worthless in the world he inhabits, is given the chance to breathe when he is with Jacky.

These are two guys who have simply ‘hit it off’. For both men, work is an escape. When they are together, in an empty flat, they can go into their own little world - a place of wild flights of fancy and comic imaginings sparked off by items they find or problems they encounter in each new location.

Both poignant and funny, Empty sees Jacky and Tony explore comic possibilities in the most mundane situations before the real world intrudes with its uncanny knack of bringing them comically back down to earth.

 

 

 

 

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