{"id":54538,"date":"2024-07-08T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2068791"},"modified":"2024-07-09T02:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T00:27:07","slug":"mr-bigstuff-creator-and-star-likens-series-to-gavin-stacey-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/mr-bigstuff-creator-and-star-likens-series-to-gavin-stacey-in-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Bigstuff creator and star likens series to \u201cGavin & Stacey in hell\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Sampson has penned the new Sky comedy. <\/p>

By Morgan Cormack\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 08 July 2024 at 20:00 PM<\/p>

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New Sky comedy Mr Bigstuff is set to tackle conversations around masculinity, family and brotherhood. But, as it turns out, it could very well be compared to another well-known comedy.<\/p>\n

In an interview in this week\u2019s issue of Radio Times magazine<\/strong>, series creator and writer Ryan Sampson spoke of the importance of writing about family for the show, saying: \u201cWhen I lost my mum, it spun our family off into different directions.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was this fixed point we\u2019d been orbiting around. I wanted to write about how a family might come back together and to subvert the domestic comedy. One actor called it \u2018Gavin & Stacey in hell\u2019. That\u2019s exactly what I wanted!\u201d<\/p>\n

The new series sees Sampson lead the cast as Glen alongside Danny Dyer<\/a> as brother Lee, two siblings who couldn\u2019t be further apart in terms of their personalities and coping mechanisms.<\/p>

Glen is described as \u201ca nervy perfectionist and carpet salesman striving to live the suburban ideal\u201d, while Dyer\u2019s Lee is \u201can alpha male with a prescription drug addiction and a biscuit tin full of their dad\u2019s ashes,\u201d according to the synopsis.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s safe to say that the series presents plenty to observe and say about masculinity, with Sampson saying that it was important to write a show about fragile masculinity because of his own feelings of being an outsider.<\/p>\n

When asked about why he wrote Mr Bigstuff, Sampson said: \u201cBecause I\u2019m 5 foot 5 and as gay as the Easter Bunny, I\u2019ve always felt on the outside looking in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to write about two men who have different ideas about how to be a man: one\u2019s trying to be a nice guy but feels crippled by it; the other thinks it\u2019s all about action, but can\u2019t face up to his demons.\u201d<\/p>\n

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