Peter Kay lands BBC comedy show based on Danny Baker

Phoenix Nights star Peter Kay will show up as a cockney docker nearby EastEnders’ Lucy Speed in Cradle to Grave

Phoenix Nights star Kay will play Danny's dad, Fred "Spud" Baker — Phoenix Nights star Kay will play Danny’s dad, Fred “Spud” Baker

Comic Peter Kay and previous EastEnders star Lucy Speed are to show up in an up and coming BBC satire taking into account moderator Danny Baker’s initial life.

The eight-section arrangement Cradle to Grave is an adjustment of Danny Baker’s collection of memoirs, Going to Sea in a Sieve. Set in 1974, the perky drama will bring Baker’s stories of his initial “wheeler-dealery” years in London’s Bermondsey to distinctive life.

Phoenix Nights star Kay will play Danny’s dad, Fred “Spud” Baker, with Speed – who played Natalie in EastEnders – tackling the part of his tolerant wife Bet Baker.

In the comic drama, 15 year-old Danny Baker will be played by Laurie Kynaston, offering an aide through the good and bad times of existence with the family headed by Fred – a glad south London docker with a propensity for brazen conspiring.

His wife cherishes him profoundly yet yearns for the family to go “straight” and play by the guidelines. With eldest little girl Sharon’s (Alice Sykes) approaching wedding, the docks confronting conclusion and Danny’s battles to get closer to the inverse sex, circumstances are difficult.

Kay said: “I am excited and regarded to be included in an undertaking of this scale. I’ve never known anything like it previously, eight period half-hour scenes, shot as gimmick movies and kept in touch with an amazingly exclusive requirement by Danny Baker and Jeff Pope. It’s an energizing time.”

Danny Baker included: “Well this is odd and there’s no chance to get around that. To see your life played out by performing artists is continually going to be impossible to miss furthermore, honestly truly enormous. I generally knew these stories were thunderingly exciting occurrences and that I appeared to be plunging through an especially unusual, high speed life inhabited by remarkable characters. Presently here they are. This will be an awesome, rich voyage back to an uproarious regularly censured time, genuine stories told huge – an in number family in a great working people group simply getting on with life.”

Shane Allen, the controller of BBC satire appointing, said: “The gifts included in this arrangement are a powder barrel of composing and performing British drama virtuoso. It’s a rowdy and rich universe of vivid characters and comical stories, and like Danny himself its shot through with a major hearted exuberance.”

It is likewise trusted that the commission will meet BBC TV manager Danny Cohen’s long-standing call for all the more common laborers comedies on the BBC.

When he tackled his previous part as supervisor of BBC1 four years back, Cohen said he was quick to have more “hands on” comedies on the channel. Presently in his post as executive of TV at the Corporation, he has oversight of all BBC TV programmes.

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