Porkpie (TV series)

Porkpie
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Trix Worrell
Starring	Ram John Holder
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	12
Production
Executive producer(s)	Al Mitchell Humphrey Barclay
Producer(s)	Humphrey Barclay Paulette Randall
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 min
Release
Original network	Channel 4
Picture format	4:3
Original release	13 November 1995 – 26 September 1996
Chronology
Preceded by	Desmond's

Porkpie was a British sitcom on Channel 4 television starring Ram John Holder as Augustus "Porkpie" Grant. It was a spinoff from Desmond's. Porkpie kept several key characters from Desmond's and in the first episode Grant ('Porkpie') was seen standing outside the barbershop Desmond used to run, saying: "Desmond, since you died it hasn't stopped raining. I know how much you used to say it can rain in England, and it's true. Must be one of two things: either a thousand angels weeping for you, or you having a good drink up in heaven and you spilling it all over the place."

Following the end of the highly successful Desmond's, life in Peckham continues. In the first episode, after the reading of the will of his late friend Desmond Ambrose (Norman Beaton), Augustus "Porkpie" Grant, a former employee at the Ford Motor Company is now a lollipop man. He borrows a pound from Michael (Desmond's son) and buys a lottery ticket. The ticket turns out to be a winner and Porkpie (as he is always called by friends) suddenly finds himself with a fortune of ten million pounds. However, before he announces that he has won he gives Michael a pound back, so he cannot have any claims to the money. He moves out of his flat into a home and also hires a chauffeur to drive him around in his new car, a Ford Escort (Porkpie explains that he bought one because "I always wanted one of these, I could never afford one, not even with the staff discount"). As time (and the series move on) Porkpie goes through various situations and learns whom he can and cannot trust now he is a millionaire.

The character of "Porkpie" was very popular in Desmond's, and it was hoped that after the end of that series, the success would be repeated in the character's own series; but the show did not really catch on. It was first screened in 1995, with the last new episode being shown in 1996. It ran for 12 episodes.

Series One aired on Mondays and the second and final series aired on Thursdays.

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