The Lakes

Mm.

Um, this is the guy who wrote Cracker and The Lakes, and with a new McGovern thing, I always know it's gonna be miserable and probably a difficult watch, but it's likely it will be good, and it's likely there will be some kind of social point to it.

And true to form, this is miserable [laughs].

Um, and it's kind of more miserable than other depressing shows I like because it's got that McGovern brand of Catholic misery, which I think is, um, one of his specialties.

Well, I was at drama school, and then halfway through the third year, I got a job, so I left early.

I got the Jimmy McGovern series, this show called The Lakes, so I left to film that up in the Lake District.

So I got an agent off the back.

I did a show, the first show of the third year, I got an agent then and then started getting put up for stuff.