my life as a mask
Former London escort, Liam Boyd, is a gifted social chameleon who now operates as a professional relationship stand-in. For a price, this consummate man-about-town will play your husband, son, gay partner, best man or picture-perfect Instagram boyfriend. Liam sees his job as a vocation, improving the lives of his clients by being exactly who they need him to be. But the line between work and life has become hopelessly blurred. When a besotted client commits suicide, it becomes clear that not just appearances, but lives are at stake.
The show was optioned by Ruby Rock Pictures (Geek Girl for Netflix, Flowers in the Attic: The Origin, Moone Boy)
Written and created with John Harris Dunning
A singular psychological drama with a unique storyline inspired by the Japanese phenomenon of actors being hired to play roles in the personal lives of their clients.
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Minor League
Presenting Minor League, a maladjusted family of adult orphans whose powers are more amusing than impressive. They’re more like Less-Men than X-Men but that doesn’t stop them fighting crime and mayhem with the lame powers at their disposal - powers that include turning things salty, making rainbows, talking to birds, being impossibly boring, and inducing contagious River-dancing.
Their nemesis is the dastardly Mannequin, who is a 1920s mannequin possessed by the soul of a disfigured WWI officer. He has Aleister Crowley to thank for the occultist black magic that’s given him eternal life as a dummy. But don’t call him that if you enjoy being alive. Mannequin is not grateful and the world will pay.
Minor League is a crazy surreal romp in the spirit of cheesy superhero TV from the 60s, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, and the unsettling darkness of David Lynch.
Written and created with John Harris Dunning
Minor League is The craziest fun this side of insanity. Live action or animated TV series.
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filthy lucre
A cursed £5 note is the deadly thread that stitches the series together. Whoever receives it is quickly confronted with temptation to commit one of the seven deadly sins. Indulging the sin is heavenly, but afterwards life becomes exponentially hellish for the victim until the note is passed on. Free of the fiver, it seems everything might just work out. But then a shocking death comes swiftly, wearing the smirk of the sin indulged. The note’s new recipient is the star of the next episode.
The device of a cursed five-pound note allows us to cross the country and all social divides. Each episode is an intimate slice of a particular British life, with its unique challenges, concerns… and temptations. Filthy Lucre is David Lynch and the Cohen brothers looking at the UK through the prism of a cursed £5 note.
Written and created with John Harris Dunning
