Year: 2024
Director: Al Campbell
Writer: Bryce Hart
Prodcuer: Ursula Haworth
Executive Producer: Neil Webster
Production Company: Happy Tramp North
Cast: Greg McHugh, Gregor Fisher, Amy Lennox, Stuart Bowman, Forbes Masson, Clare Barrett, Robin Laing and Paul Rattray
Broadcaster: BBC
Synopsis
Only Child stars Greg McHugh (The A Word, Fresh Meat) as only child and budding author Richard, who travels back to his family home in North East Scotland to look after his aging and wilful dad Ken, played by Gregor Fisher (Rab C Nesbitt, Love Actually, The Cockfields), as he slips into ever more eccentric and erratic behaviour.
Richard’s long overdue visit to recently-widowed Ken results in him realising that his dad may need a bit more full time help than he’d realised. Not that Ken would agree, but that statement is pretty much true about anything.
Ken is an eccentric, strong-willed technophobe who is very much set in his ways, leaving Richard to worry about his dad growing old.
More information
Streaming: Only Child is available to watch on BBC iPlayer and will screen on BBC Scotland from Thursday 21 November 2024.
Filming locations: Only Child will be filmed in Glasgow and around the North East of Scotland.
Only Child (6x30) is a Happy Tramp North production for BBC One and BBC Scotland. The Writer is Bryce Hart and the Executive Producer is Neil Webster. The series was ordered for BBC One and BBC iPlayer by Jon Petrie, Director of Comedy and Louise Thornton, Head of Commissioning at BBC Scotland. The BBC Commissioning Editor is Gregor Sharp and Gavin Smith for BBC Scotland.
Only Child’s development was supported by Screen Scotland.
Image credit: still from Only Child courtesy of BBC Scotland / Happy Tramp North / Graeme Hunter