Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan's acclaimed and award-winning sitcom about a misanthropic shopkeeper. Bernard Black (Moran) spends his days abusing customers and drinking large quantities of wine in his unkempt book store. His sole friend Fran (Tamsin Greig) works in the gift shop next door, but soon becomes embroiled in a life of novelty-seeking when she loses her job. They are promptly joined by Manny (Bill Bailey) an ex-accountant reborn as a messiah of inner peace.