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Gary Garner
Gary Garner is a charismatic East London cab driver who is determined to follow in the footsteps of his heroes Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones.
With his recently deceased mother's ashes in one hand and his inheritance in the other, Gary is putting his blind faith in the so called 'experts' of Hollywood to make his dreams come true.
He only has enough money to last him six weeks but thinks that's plenty of time to learn method acting, get an agent and land a starring role in a movie. Buoyed by his mates from the pub back home cheering him on, Gary thinks Hollywood is his for the taking... -
Brendan Allen
Brendan Allen is an aspiring documentary auteur who desperately wants to be as hip as Nick Broomfield and as rich as Michael Moore, but has all the talent of Homer Simpson.
Currently in the throes of a messy divorce, Brendon dreams of making a film that will paint him as a hero who changed the world so he can impress his estranged five-year-old son Jack and as an f-you to anyone who ever doubted him (especially his ex-wife Susie).
With access to Jack on the line, Brendan has decided to man up by spending his son's school fees on an ill-conceived jaunt to LA. -
Shirley Ghostman
Shirley Ghostman is a professional psychic with a unique talent – he can communicate with dead celebrities.
Last year, a young girl was kidnapped and Shirley couldn't resist jumping on the bandwagon by offering his powers to assist in her rescue. Unfortunately for Shirley, the girl was not quite as dead as he proclaimed and his credibility went down the drain.
With his UK career in freefall, Shirley decides to move to LA, where he hopes to rise from the ashes. Broke and on the run, Shirley will succeed in America by any means necessary... -
Welcome to La La Land
Award-winning actor and comic provocateur Marc Wootton (My New Best Friend, Gavin & Stacey, High Spirits With Shirley Ghostman) stars in La La Land, a new series about three wannabes seeking fame and fortune in Los Angeles.
Marc plays Brendan Allen, a documentary filmmaker with zero talent and even less integrity, set on a quest to become the next Morgan Spurlock; Shirley Ghostman, a disgraced medium willing to lie, cheat and even drug his way to becoming America's next psychic superstar; and Gary Garner, an East-London taxi driver using the inheritance from his late porn-star mother to forge a new career as an action star in the mould of his hero Jason Statham.
Marc's characters are fictitious, but everybody else - including his accomplices Kiki (Brendan's camerawoman), Chico (Shirley's driver) and Ruta (Gary's mentor) - is real and utterly unaware they are talking to an actor.
La La Land is an ambitious and complex stunt that was years in the devising, months in the making and remarkable as a feat of sheer daring and bank-heist planning, with some of the many run-ins with the LAPD finding their way into the final show.
The show counts Ben Stiller and Larry David among its fans, is narrated by Julian Barrat of The Mighty Boosh and has an original score by Steve Mason, founder of The Beta Band. -
It's Been Done!
Sorry, you must enable Javascript to display media contentFilmmaker Brendan Allen talks to producer Sheldon Altfeld about his shark film idea.
