The Carters are skint until 11-year-old Harry codes Honc, a chat-up app for awkward kids, and American tech titan Trent Zebriski snaps it up for £10 million. Mum Liz starts panic-buying designer tat, dad Tony clings to his council-van round, and posh handler Oliver Campbell-Legg hovers ineptly to keep the family on brand. Sky One’s single-series sitcom, filmed in and around Milton Keynes, ran six episodes from 31 March to 5 May 2017 and never returned.
Writers Claire Downes, Stuart Lane and Ian Jarvis keep the tone loud and cartoonish: neighbours turn gold-diggers, sue-happy Sue Golding claims her son co-wrote the code, and Trent keeps trying to whisk Harry off to Silicon Valley while Tony waves a MK Dons scarf in protest. Executive producer Ash Atalla brought the same gag-heavy rhythm he honed on The Office and Man Down, but ratings stayed flat and Sky quietly shelved the property after the sixth week.
Rhashan Stone and Kerry Godliman anchor the chaos as Tony and Liz Carter, Rio Chambers plays the dead-pan coding prodigy Harry, and James Van Der Beek camps it up as leather-jacketed tech overlord Trent. John Finnemore steals scenes as the chinless liaison Oliver, forever clutching a briefcase full of branded fleece. Roughcut TV produced the half-hours for Sky 1; no second season was commissioned.
Production Details
Sky One / 1 Season / 6 Episodes / 2017
Created by: Claire DownesStuart LaneIan Jarvis
Writer(s): Claire DownesStuart LaneIan Jarvis
Producer(s): Alexander Smith
Main Cast
Matt Garrill as Masseur
Ellie White as Shauna
