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Black Books
The title screen featuring the front of the shop, Black Books.
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Dylan Moran
Starring	Dylan Moran Bill Bailey Tamsin Greig
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. Dylan Moran (born 3 November 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award -winning Irish Comedian, Actor and Dylan Moran (born 3 November 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award -winning Irish Comedian, Actor and Mark Bailey where he was initially an academic pupil winning most of the prizes Tamsin Greig (ˈtæmzɪn ˈgrεg (born 23 February 1967) is an Olivier Award -winning British stage and screen actress The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States of episodes	18
Production
Producer(s)	Karen Beever William Burdett-Coutts Nira Park Julian Meers
Camera setup	Multiple
Running time	25 minutes approx. William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts (born William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett; 1851 &ndash 28 July 1921) was an American -born British Nira Park is a British Television and Film producer. Park worked at The Comic Strip from 1989 to 1995 The multiple-camera setup (aka multiple-camera mode of production is a method of shooting films and television programs
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Original run	September 29, 2000 – April 15, 2004
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Black Books is a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began Events 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. The year 2000 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2000. Events 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English The year 2004 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2004. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began Dylan Moran (born 3 November 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award -winning Irish Comedian, Actor and Mark Bailey where he was initially an academic pupil winning most of the prizes Tamsin Greig (ˈtæmzɪn ˈgrεg (born 23 February 1967) is an Olivier Award -winning British stage and screen actress It was written by Dylan Moran, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley and produced by Nira Park. Dylan Moran (born 3 November 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award -winning Irish Comedian, Actor and Graham Linehan (born 1969 is an Irish television writer and director who often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a number of popular Arthur Mathews (born c 1959 in County Meath, Ireland) is an Irish comedy writer who often with writing partner Kevin Cecil is a British Scriptwriter. Writing alongside Andy Riley (with whom he has been friends since attending Aylesbury Grammar School Andy Riley (born 1970 is a British Author, Cartoonist and Scriptwriter. Nira Park is a British Television and Film producer. Park worked at The Comic Strip from 1989 to 1995 The show won the BAFTA for Best Situation Comedy in 2001 and 2005, and won a Bronze Rose at the Festival Rose d'Or of Montreux in 2001. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation The Rose d'Or ( Golden Rose in English is a highly prestigious Television award given annually since 1961 at the Festival Rose d'Or in spring each year

The series is set in the eponymous "Black Books", a small, independent bookshop in the Bloomsbury area of central London. Bloomsbury is an area of central London in the south of the London Borough of Camden, developed by the Russell family in the 17th and 18th centuries into London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The show is based around the lives and often surreal antics of its foul-mouthed, eccentric, misanthropic, alcoholic Irish owner Bernard Black (played by Moran), his assistant Manny (Bailey), and their friend Fran (Greig).

1 Overview
2 Characters
3 Episodes
4 Production
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links

Overview

The series revolves around Bernard's loathing of the outside world and the people who inhabit it. Bernard displays little enthusiasm or interest in retail (or, indeed, anything outside drinking, smoking and reading) and refuses to interact with the outside world. Many episodes are driven by Manny and Fran's attempts to force him into a more socially acceptable lifestyle. However, as they themselves are remarkably ill-equipped to interact with the world outside the shop, their efforts usually result in chaos, sucking them back into Bernard's nihilistic view of the world. Nihilism (from the Latin nihil, nothing is a philosophical position that argues that Existence is without objective meaning Purpose

The series is notable for its surreal and off-beat sense of humour, particularly when regarding the state of the shop; it is frequently depicted to be in an unhealthy state of dirtiness, with sea-water molluscs living on the water pipes and, when it is in a particularly bad state, dead badgers blocking the way. Molluscs are animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca. There are around 250000 extant Species within the phylum with an estimated 70000 Badger is the Common name for any animal of three subfamilies which belong to the family Mustelidae: the same Mammal family as the

Characters

Bernard Black, played by Dylan Moran
Manny Bianco, played by Bill Bailey
Fran Katzenjammer, played by Tamsin Greig

Episodes

For more information, see Black Books Episodes. Bernard Ludwig Black is a fictional Bookseller and the main character in the sitcom Black Books. Dylan Moran (born 3 November 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award -winning Irish Comedian, Actor and Emmanuel "Manny" Bianco is a fictional Bookseller and a central character in the British comedy sitcom Black Books, portrayed Mark Bailey where he was initially an academic pupil winning most of the prizes Enid Francesca "Fran" Katzenjammer is a character in the sitcom Black Books played by Tamsin Greig. Tamsin Greig (ˈtæmzɪn ˈgrεg (born 23 February 1967) is an Olivier Award -winning British stage and screen actress

Production

The show's concept came from a second hand bookshop in Maldon, Essex named Allbooks. Maldon (ˈmɔːldən locally /ˈmɒldən/ is a town on the Blackwater estuary in Essex, England.
Black Books is considered by the makers, as stated in the Shaun of the Dead audio commentary, to be a sister-show of fellow Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, which was also produced by Nira Park. Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British Zombie -themed Comedy (or " rom zom com " as it dubs itself film Spaced is a British Television Situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and Nira Park is a British Television and Film producer. Park worked at The Comic Strip from 1989 to 1995 Numerous comic actors have appeared in both series, including Bill Bailey, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jessica Stevenson and Peter Serafinowicz. Mark Bailey where he was initially an academic pupil winning most of the prizes Simon Pegg (born Simon John Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an award-winning English Actor, Comedian, Writer Nicholas John Frost (born 28 March, 1972) is an award-winning English Actor, Comedian and movie script-writer He is best known Jessica Hynes (née Stevenson; born 15 November 1972) is an English actress and Writer, best known as one of the creators Peter Serafinowicz (sɛrəˈfɪnəwiʧ (born 10 July 1972) is a British comic actor Voice artist and Composer of Belarussian
The show started as a pilot at a 1998 Channel 4 sitcom festival in Riverside Studios. Riverside Studios is one of West London 's leading centres for contemporary and international dramatic performance film exhibitions and television production In this early version, Fran was 'Valerie', a philosophy lecturer, and Manny (whose surname was then Zimmerman - a reference to the original name of musician Bob Dylan) was a professional depression-o-gram. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major The show was also decidedly darker, the pilot revolving around Bernard and later Manny's decision to commit suicide.
The exterior scenes of Black Books were filmed outside a real bookshop, albeit rather a smaller one, called Collinge & Clark, located in Leigh Street, Bloomsbury. The pub that is seen in the earlier episodes is now a 'gastropub' restaurant called the Norfolk Arms. A gastropub (or "gastro pub" is a British term for a Public house which specializes in high-quality food a step above the more basic " pub grub The fictional address for the shop (as seen on a letter at the start of "Travel Writer") is "Black Books, 13 Little Bevan Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1". Also in episode 6 of series 1 Manny cites the shop as being located "just off Russell Square". Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden.
Manny's name came from Emmanuel as he was originally going to be Jewish. Immanuel is also a town in Israel near Ariel. For other articles please see Emanuel (disambiguation PLEASE TAKE NOTE************
There have been three series of Black Books, each with six episodes. Moran has hinted that there will be no more series ^[1], and The Times reports the series has been "killed off" ^[2]. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.

References

External links

Black Books at Channel4.com
Black Books at the British Film Institute
Black Books at the Internet Movie Database

Black Books
List of Black Books episodes
Characters
Bernard Black \| Manny Bianco \| Fran Katzenjammer
Actors
Dylan Moran \| Bill Bailey \| Tamsin Greig

Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began The British Film Institute ( BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film television Black Books was a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig Bernard Ludwig Black is a fictional Bookseller and the main character in the sitcom Black Books. Emmanuel "Manny" Bianco is a fictional Bookseller and a central character in the British comedy sitcom Black Books, portrayed Enid Francesca "Fran" Katzenjammer is a character in the sitcom Black Books played by Tamsin Greig. Dylan Moran (born 3 November 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award -winning Irish Comedian, Actor and Mark Bailey where he was initially an academic pupil winning most of the prizes Tamsin Greig (ˈtæmzɪn ˈgrεg (born 23 February 1967) is an Olivier Award -winning British stage and screen actress

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