Black Books
| Black Books | |
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Title screen featuring the front of Black Books.
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| Genre |
Sitcom Dark comedy |
| Created by |
Dylan Moran Graham Linehan |
| Written by | Dylan Moran Graham Linehan Arthur Mathews Kevin Cecil Andy Riley |
| Starring |
Dylan Moran Bill Bailey Tamsin Greig |
| Composer(s) | Jonathan Whitehead |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 18 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | William Burdett-Coutts |
| Producer(s) |
Nira Park Julian Meers |
| Editor(s) | Paul Machliss Nick Ames |
| Camera setup | Multiple |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Big Talk |
| Distributor | Channel 4 Sales |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Picture format | 576p SDTV |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital Stereo |
| Original release | 29 September 2000 – 15 April 2004 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Black Books is a British sitcom created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2004. Starring Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig, the series is set in the eponymous London bookshop and follows the lives of its owner Bernard Black (Moran), his assistant Manny Bianco (Bailey) and their friend Fran Katzenjammer (Greig). The series was produced by Big Talk Productions, in association with Channel 4.
The show was produced in a multiple-camera setup, and was primarily filmed at Teddington Studios in Teddington, London, with exterior scenes filmed on location on Leigh Street and the surrounding areas in Bloomsbury. The debut episode premiered on 29 September 2000 and three seasons followed, with the final episode airing on 15 April 2004.
Black Books was a critical success, winning a number of awards, including two BAFTA awards for Best Situation Comedy in 2001 and 2005 and a Bronze Rose at the Festival Rose d'Or.
Bernard Black is the proprietor of Black Books, a small bookshop. The series revolves around the lives of Bernard, Manny and Fran. A central theme is Bernard's odd position as a moody and spiteful shopkeeper who has a loathing of the outside world and all the people who inhabit it, except his oldest friend, Fran, who initially ran a trendy bric-a-brac shop, Nifty Gifty, next-door to the shop.
Bernard displays little enthusiasm or interest in retail (or, indeed, anything outside drinking, smoking and reading) and actively avoids having to interact with anyone, even inside his shop, as he has a personal dislike of his customers, treating his bookshop more like a personal library. It is suggested that Fran and Bernard once slept together, but now they remain happy to be friends, sharing a love of smoking heavily and drinking to excess. Fran otherwise has a rather hopeless love life.
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