Black Books

Black Books is a British television sitcom, broadcast on Channel 4 and written and directed by Dylan Moran, Nira Park and Graham Linehan. The show has twice won the BAFTA for Best Situation Comedy (2001 & 2005) and has won a Bronze Rose at the Festival Rose d'Or of Montreux (Switzerland in 2001).

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British - Television - Sitcom - Channel 4 - Dylan Moran - Nira Park - Graham Linehan - BAFTA - Festival Rose d'Or - Switzerland

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The multi-series is set in the Bloomsbury area of central London, in a small independent book shop owned by Bernard Black (Dylan Moran), a foul mouthed, eccentric, misanthropic Irish drunkard. The show is based around Bernard's often surreal antics and the lives of his two friends: Manny, a hairy former accountant who works for Bernard, and Fran, who owned a gift shop next door during the first series.

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Bloomsbury - London - Misanthropic

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Moran insists that the idea of Black Books was not from the Hugh Grant movie Notting Hill where he had a cameo role that involved going to Grant's independent book shop in North London and attempting to steal books.

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Hugh Grant - Notting Hill

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