Ben Elton returns to BBC One with new comedy ‘Slings and Arrows’

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The official synopsis reads: “Few Council Officers take their commitment to the health and safety of the public more seriously than Gerald B Meakin, played by David Haig. A man dedicated to the minimization of risk, even where no actual risk exists. If only Gerald were able to control his own life with the same benevolent despotism with which he regulates other peoples’. Sadly he can’t.

“A recent divorcee and new single Dad, Gerald B Meakin’s personal life is just one long struggle against the petty irritations and inconvenience which bedevil all our lives. Those 21st century slings and arrows of outrageous fortune against which Gerald’s lengthy rule book is no defence at all.”

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