Tom Hollander revs up clergy in new sitcom (VIDEO)

Tom Hollander revs up clergy in new sitcom (VIDEO)
Tom Hollander revs up clergy in new sitcom (VIDEO)

Tom Hollander, the star of new BBC sitcom Rev says he and co-writer James Wood were inspired by a real story of a vicar thrown into London social life. The six-part series stars Tom and Olivia Colman as a vicar, who's not best suited to inner city preaching, and his remarkably un-Christian wife. Tom explains the essence of Rev: "It came from a story I heard about a vicar who became west London's most invited because the Shadow Cabinet wanted to get their children into his school and we thought it was funny, the idea of a vicar, awkward socially, possibly socially inadequate, suddenly in the middle of the metropolitan social world. "Then we started to go and meet all sorts of other vicars and it became much broader and expanded in all sorts of different directions."

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.