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Michelle Keegan’s New Comedy 'Brassic' Is A Modern Day 'Shameless'

Michelle Keegan’s New Comedy 'Brassic' Is A Modern Day 'Shameless'

It’s launching on Sky One later this month so get ready for even more nights on the sofa.

Naomi Chadderton

Naomi Chadderton

With Mindhunter 2, Deep Water and Euphoria already on our August binge list - not to mention the return of The Big British Bake Off later this month - we didn't think we'd have enough time to add another TV series to our list.

But then we saw the trailer for Michelle Keegan's new comedy Brassic and we've basically cancelled all plans for the rest of the month.

Coming to Sky One and Now TV from Thursday 22nd August, a quick Google search tells us brassic is defined as 'broke, penniless, without means, boracic lint-skint, on the bones of yer arse' - basically all perfect words to sum up the new show that stars Michelle Keegan and This Is England's Joe Gilgun.

Co-created by Joe and BAFTA-winning writer Danny Brocklehurst who worked on Shameless back in the day, the show follows a group of working-class friends who find unconventional ways to survive in suburban Lancashire - including scamming, bribing and conning.

Former Coronation Street star Michelle plays single mum Erin, the loving yet tired girlfriend of Dylan, who is played by Damien Molony from BBC's Ripper Street.

The other main character, Dylan's best mate Vinnie (Joe Gilgun), is a Northern lad with bipolar disorder and the pair have barely spent a day apart since birth.

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However with Erin's plans to leave town and make a good life for her and her son Tyler, it looks like their friendship could potentially be derailed.

According to Sky, "Dylan is faced with the impossible decision between a fresh start with the love of his life or staying behind with his inseparable gang of mates that he can't live without."

This gang also includes champion kebab eater Cardy, the son of a family of fighting travellers Ash, Tommo - the most sexually liberated man in Britain - and 'sharp' entrepreneur JJ.

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Speaking to Digital Spy, Daniel said: "I worked on Shameless years and years ago, and I'd sort of been wanting to do something that felt funny and a bit mucky and irreverent, but had truth to it and something to say about the world.

"This felt like that to me and I thought if these stories are making me laugh and I'm excited, hopefully other people will be as well."

He also added that he feels the north is often ignored in popular TV shows, and being his home, he was keen to bring it back into viewers' living rooms.

"I felt like when we were talking about this, one of the things that we sort of thought - there's a line in he show about this - there's a lot of forgotten towns in the country or just little towns that people haven't left or they've made their own rules."

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"And I think that's a really important thing to show. It's a place where a lot of people live and perhaps not as extreme as this, but there's a sort of recognisability to Brassic."

Don't forget to set record for this one.

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