Genre: | Comedy |
Director: | Robert B. Weide |
Starring: | Nick Frost Olivia Colman Ophelia Lovibond Peter Serafinowicz Lawry Lewin Michael Malarkey Brendan Patricks |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Num Series: | 1 |
Num Episodes: | 6 |
Producer: | Clelia Mountford |
Channel: | Sky Atlantic |
Mr. Sloane is a British comedy television series that was first broadcast on Sky Atlantic on 23 May 2014.[1] The six-part series was written by Robert B. Weide, Aschlin Ditta and Oliver Lansley and directed by Robert B. Weide. It is set in Watford in 1969.[2]
In 1969 in Watford, Hertfordshire, Jeremy Sloane, a depressed accountant, has lost his job and his wife, Janet. Sloane gets a part-time job, and at a hardware shop he meets a young, free-spirited American manic pixie dream girl named Robin who may just help him get his life back on track.
Filming began in April 2013.[3] The series is a Big Talk Productions and Whyaduck Productions production with BBC Worldwide as the distributor.[4]
In October 2014, Sky announced the show would not be returning for a second series.[5]
The series premiered in Australia on 15 June 2015 on BBC First.[6]