Funland - A disturbingly funny thriller
Funland is the hotly anticipated collaboration between BAFTA award-winning EastEnders writer, Simon Ashdown and Jeremy Dyson, multi-award-winning writer of The League of Gentlemen.
Set in Blackpool, over one long weekend, Funland takes you to the black heart of Blackpool, bringing the saucy seaside postcard screaming into the twenty-first century. Funland takes us on a mysterious journey where things are not quite what they seem.
Newcomer Daniel Mays plays charismatic hero who arrives in Blackpool naked, stranded and penniless, armed only with two words on a scrap of paper, to avenge the death of his mother. As Carter tries to uncover the truth about his mother he is sucked into the most disturbing of mysteries.
He meets the dysfunctional Woolf family who are at the heart of everything that happens in Blackpool: there's Shirley Woolf (Ian Puleston-Davies), a borderline psycho; his mother, the evil and manipulative Mercy (Judy Parfitt); and his foolhardy wife Connie (Frances Barber).
Meanwhile the Suttons, Dudley (Kris Marshall) and Lola (Sarah Smart) are the unsuspecting young couple who arrive in Blackpool for a dirty weekend to spice up their marriage, but their weekend at the Shangri-la guesthouse ensures that their lives will never be the same again...
BBC Three, Sunday 23rd Oct at 10pm (continues Monday at 10.30pm)
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