BBC orders father-daughter comedy ‘Daddy Issues’ from Fudge Park

L-R: Aimee Lou Wood & David Morrissey (Source: BBC)

BBC Comedy has ordered Daddy Issues, a new series for BBC Three and BBC iPlayer starring Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey.

Hailing from White Gold and Ill Behaviour firm Fudge Park Productions, the 6 x 30-minute series is written by Danielle Ward (Brassic, In The Long Run) and directed by Catherine Morshead (The Full Monty, No Offence) and Damon Beesley (White Gold, The Inbetweeners 2).

Lynn Roberts (Man Like Mobeen, I Hate You) produces, while Phil Gilbert (Count Abdulla, White Gold) exec produces for Fudge Park Productions, alongside Wood, Morrissey, Beesley and Ward. Fremantle is handling global sales.

The show follows Gemma (Wood), who lives for the weekend when she can get blasted and party hard in Stockport, Manchester. But after joining the mile high club with a random hook-up on her way back from a holiday to Portugal, she’s pregnant, and it couldn’t come at a worst time.

The only person Gemma has left in her life is her dad Malcolm (Morrissey), who is kind hearted but useless – he can’t load a washing machine, boil an egg or change the Wi-Fi password. Malcolm is suffering from the collapse of his family and living in a bedsit for divorced men.

Which is how Gemma and her dad end up living in Gemma’s flat. She needs support at a critical time in a woman’s life, he needs help microwaving rice without it exploding.

“In Daddy Issues, Danielle has created a genuinely laugh out loud sitcom. We’re delighted to be working with her, and the Fudge Park team, on the show. Having Aimee and David cast as the co-leads was the cherry on the cake,” said Jon Petrie, director of comedy commissioning at the BBC.