Coming Up

- Season 8

(2010)

30 year old Hayley is diagnosed with a brain tumor, with the future in mind Hayley insists her husband goes on a series of blind dates to find a new partner.

Two teenage boys, Malik and Adam celebrate their half-term off school. Malik's brother, Jamal - a strict Muslim causes them concern due to his increasingly isolated and strange behaviour.

Missy and Kim, are two very different sisters. Missy is a regular clubber, who dreams of bagging a footballer. Kim is hard at work studying for a law degree. When money gets tight, the two form a plan to get money from inside football tips.

Luka Bartholomew cares for his bed-ridden mother in the run-down resort town of Porthpunnet. On his thirtieth birthday his mother hires a carer to give him a day off. On a wintry beach he meets Dan,another young man who lives in a camper van and shares his interest in art. Initially he sees Dan as a kindred spirit until Dan proves to be gay and makes a violent pass at him. Disillusioned and drunk,Luka meets middle-aged biker Phil,who gives him a pillion ride and offers to help him leave town. But by now Luka knows where his priorities lie.

A young man makes friends with a pet mouse out of loneliness.

Ben is captivated by his next door neighbour, Chloe - she toy with his affections, until a chance encounter with her doppelgänger which changes their relationship forever.

A pickpocket (Jason) blackmails a Somalian immigrant, Asad, on a London night bus.