PhoneShop

- Season 1

(2010)

Naïve young Christopher starts on a one-day trial at the Sutton Phone Shop after assistant manager Gary Patel has been jailed for attacking the lads from Top Shop with a crossbow. He meets his new boss,Lance - whose medication has odd side effects - the ambitious but serious Janine and jokers Ashley and Jerwayne (twenty-nine but still living at home) who are nonetheless hot shot salespeople. Unlike Christopher - whom they nickname New Man. Indeed Christopher is considering quitting until he effects a sale which suddenly makes him very popular.

On his first full day at the Phone Shop Christopher - despite being a graduate - manages to get stuck in the kitchen and Ashley and Jerwayne decide to show him how to impress,by pretending he is a medical student. Janine is still anxious to become assistant manager but Lance feels she has some way to go before matching Gary Patel - seen on CCTV attacking customers. Christopher's honesty makes him a hit with customers but when Croydon shop manager Paul and his funky employee Rochelle turn up to scoff Christopher's honesty - in exposing Rochelle when she claims that she...

Lance is puzzled by an amorous email from somebody called Kim but decides to play along until he discovers that 'she' is actually a man. Jerwayne obsesses over a salesgirl for whom he has fallen but feels he is being controlled by the owl tattoo on her back. Ashley schmoozes with a sexy customer but is horrified to find it is the same girl. Ashley and Jerwayne's advice to Christopher to play it cool on a lunch date with a girl he met that morning does not pay off when it makes him look like an idiot. Janine also contributes to breaking up the couple though it proves ...

Razz Prince,the loud and irritating area manager arrives at the shop and annoys Lance by calling him boring so Lance attempts to be a hip,ganja-smoking Rasta but ends up being sick. In the evening the staff go to a night club where once again Lance gets accused of being boring by the stand-up comic but Christopher has discovered that Razz means to get rid of him and blackmails him into changing his mind.

On Super Sales Wednesday,alias Family Fun Day,the shop staff will get a two hundred pound bonus if they get the best sales for the area so Christopher is sent out on the streets in a bear costume to drum up trade whilst Ashley bribes customers with free coffees as well as imprisoning an inept robber in the store-room. Janine makes short work of a sex-mad security guard who also ends up in the store-room minus his clothes and the day looks to be a huge success until Christopher,tired of being mocked,fights back and attracts the police to the store - where Lance has ...

Jerwayne is exceedingly jealous of Don,the handsome international business man to whom Janine has just got engaged. Christopher,on the other hand,admires him because Don is giving him tips on how to become Salesman of the Month. In fact following a phone call from Gary Patel,Christopher discovers that he is not salesman of the month after all whilst Don is exposed as being a garbage removal man and Janine considers transferring her affections to Jerwayne as she calls the engagement off.

Lance and his bossy,demanding wife Shelley have renewed their marriage vows and are on a second honeymoon,leaving Janine in charge. Pleased at her temporary promotion she tells Christopher that they must 'go the extra mile' to make their customers feel wanted but unfortunately this leads to a misunderstanding where they are taken for swingers. Ashley makes a date with a soldier,hoping that she will be gagging for it after months in the desert but her blood-lust terrifies him. Jerwayne is also terrified after Shelley,discovering that she and Lance were never legally ...