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From the creative team behind the BAFTA award- winning Murder in Successville, King Gary is written by Tom Davis and James De Frond. It stars Davis as the lead (Gary) and the series is directed by De Frond.
Our story follows childhood sweethearts Gary and Terri (Laura Checkley) and their aspirations to achieve social acceptance and moderate material success in competitive suburbia. This, accompanied by drama queen Gary’s constant strive to impress his prehistoric old school Dad, Big Gary (Simon Day) and attempt to fill his big boots, equals a massive ‘try hard’ douchebag.
A study of how the small things in life can be blown up to absurd proportions as the pressures of the modern world, and how we think we must exist within it, can spiral out of control. A big comedy about life s small and often petty dramas.
23 December 2020 • 10:30pm
Well lush? Tom Davis as Gary
Credit: Shiny Button
We’ve all had to adjust our expectations in 2020. So it is with the festive schedules. Last year, BBC One gave us the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special. This year we get the
King Gary Christmas Special (BBC One), which doesn’t garner quite the same levels of excitement.
That’s not to say King Gary lacks charm. Tom Davis is just loveable enough as Gary the builder, forever trying to impress his neighbours on Essex’s Butterchurn Crescent. Those neighbours include the weary Stuart (Romesh Ranganathan), who in this episode had no desire to get involved in Gary’s plans for a lavish Christmas lights display. Meanwhile, Gary was trying to please his dad, Big Gary (The Fast Show’s Simon Day), by nailing a big deal for the family firm.