Grease Monkeys - BBC3 Comedy Drama - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Genre

Comedy Drama

Broadcast

2003 - 2004

Channel

BBC Three

Episodes

20 (2 series)

Creator

Harwant Bains

Stars

Ace Bhatti, Archie Panjabi, Goran Kostic, Jake Wood, Marc Zuber, Indira Joshi, Ken Sharrock, Karl Collins and more

Writer

Harwant Bains

Producers

Will Trotter, Alexei de Keyser and Serena Cullen

Company

What's worse than living with a dysfunctional family? Working with them too. Grease Monkeys is a dark comedy drama series about an Asian family, all of whom work in the family business, Grand Trunk Garage.

Grand Trunk is owned by patriarch Mo (Marc Zuber) who spends most of his time worrying about daughter Rita (Archie Panjabi). Rita happens to be an ace mechanic who is more obsessed with cars than with fashion, make-up or finding a nice boy to settle down with. Mo's son Dave (Ahsen Bhatti), is a sexually irrepressible, irresponsible minor criminal. He runs the sales side of the business... mostly into the ground. Mo also has to contend with the ghost of his dead wife, Jasbir (Indira Joshi), and a talking dog.

And this is only the family - wait til you meet the friends.

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First broadcast

Tuesday 15th April 2003 at 10:30pm on BBC Three