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Funland

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Did anyone see this last night on BBC2 (10:30pm)? I thought it looked promising. :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/funland/
Funland is a disturbingly funny new thriller — the result of a collaboration between BAFTA award-winning EastEnders writer, Simon Ashdown, and Jeremy Dyson, multi-award-winning writer of The League of Gentlemen.

Set in Blackpool over one long weekend, Funland plunges you into the black heart of the resort town, bringing the saucy seaside postcard screaming into the twenty-first century.

Join the characters on a mysterious journey where nothing is quite what it seems:

Carter Krantz (Daniel Mays) arrives in Blackpool to avenge the death of his mother. Without a penny to his name and carrying only a fragment of paper containing the words Ambrose Chapel, he is sucked into the most disturbing of mysteries.

The dysfunctional Woolf family are at the heart of everything that happens in Blackpool: there's Shirley Woolf (Ian Puleston-Davies), a borderline psycho; his mother, the evil and manipulative Mercy (Judy Parfitt); and his foolhardy wife Connie (Frances Barber).

Also in town are the Suttons, Dudley (Kris Marshall) and Lola (Sarah Smart), hoping for a dirty weekend to spice up their marriage. Little do they suspect that their stay in the Shangri-la guesthouse will turn their world upside down... their lives will never be the same again.