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Charles Dale, Neil Morrissey and Ralf Little star as three brothers
struggling to keep their business afloat in Paradise Heights, a
new drama series, starting in July on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ONE
Charles
Dale plays Clive Eustace, the eldest of the brothers, who runs the
Paradise Heights discount warehouse in Nottingham, selling everything
from bargain beer to fake designer gear.
All he wants is to make a decent living but he's thwarted at every
turn – not least by his own brothers, Charlie (Neil Morrissey),
who's always on the look-out for an easy scam, and the youngest,
Richard (Ralf Little), who's still deciding what he wants out of
life.
Pam
Ferris is their mother, Marion, and Joanne Froggatt is Julia, their
adoptive sister. Between them, the women manage to keep some sort
of order in the family but sometimes they just can't help trying
out schemes of their own.
Adding
to Clive's woes are local big-shot Jack Edwards (played by David
Troughton), whose money and muscle are a constant threat to the
family's survival, and his unresolved difficulties with ex-wife
Claire (Lindsey Coulson).
And
as if that wasn't enough, Julia is engaged to be married to Jack's
son, Toby (Rupert Evans), and Charlie is having an affair with Jack's
elegant wife, Yvonne (Mary Tamm).
The Eustace brothers know that the only way to get Jack Edwards
off their back is to pay him the money they owe him. The question
is: how far are they willing to go to get it?
Jane
Tranter, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Controller of Drama Commissioning, says: "We're
delighted to have a new drama series from Ashley Pharoah, after
the success of Down To Earth with Pauline Quirke and Warren Clarke.
Paradise Heights is part of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One's push into contemporary, post-watershed
signature drama, complementing other new series such as Spooks (created
by David Wolstencroft), Debbie Horsfield's Cutting It, and the return
of Paul Abbott's Clocking Off."
Neil
Morrissey is best known as the hapless Tony in Men Behaving Badly.
Charles Dale played love-rat Dennis Stringer in Coronation Street
– this is his first role since leaving the soap – and
Ralf Little starred as "our Anthony" in The Royle Family.
Notes to Editors
The Paradise Heights press
pack (262 KB) is available in . You may require Adobe Acrobat Software to read PDF
files which can be obtained .
Paradise Heights is created and written by Ashley Pharoah, with
one of the episodes written by Adrian Mead. The producer is Polly
Hill and the directors are Ashley Pearce and David Innes Edwards.
The executive producers are Simon Lewis, Susan Hogg and Ashley Pharoah.
For more information on Paradise Heights,
check out the website at
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