Handle With Prayer

Handle With Prayer

Handle With Prayer is a new six-part comedy created by James Wood and Tom Hollander and written by James Wood for BBC Two.

Handle With Prayer is a contemporary sitcom about the enormous daily frustrations and moral conflicts of the Rev Andrew Smallbone (played by Tom Hollander).

He's a Church of England vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy, socially-divided world of St Botolph's in Kennington, South London.

It's a very modern world he has no experience of... And it shows.

Handle With Prayer is based on in-depth research with a number of senior church insiders and is dripping with bang up-to-date authenticity to present a 21st century version of the TV vicar never seen before.

Andrew's church sees the inner-city world in microcosm, and he isn't allowed to turn anybody away.

Anybody can and does walk into the church – and into Andrew's life – from scheming, hypocritical MPs to local criminals. From urban sophisticates to the chronically lonely, the homeless, the drug addicts, the lost, the poor and, occasionally, the insane.

Handle With Prayer is a series that shows what an impossibly difficult job it is being a good, modern, urban priest.

Handle With Prayer will be an authentic, albeit highly comic, portrayal of modern life in an inner city church. Heavily researched and supported by high-profile insiders.