BBC1 calls new series Scrappers 'an uplifting story of second chances'

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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BBC One is heading to the scrap yard with a new TV series Scrappers.

The prime-time series will be filmed in Bolton and introduce viewers to the 'larger than life' husband and wife team behind the North West's biggest scrap yard.

Over six episodes, Scrappers will reveal 'an uplifting story of second chances' as it follows straight-talking Terry Walker and glamorous wife Lyndsay and their 'motley crew' of a workforce.

Viewers will see the couple 'fall out with each other, and struggle to keep their conventionally unemployable employees on the straight and narrow' as they run their multi-million-pound scrap empire.

Scrappers, which follows other shows such as The Call Centre and A Very British Airline, premieres on BBC One on Friday, August 8.

 

 

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.