{"id":159046,"date":"2025-09-25T06:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159046\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T06:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:56:07","slug":"greater-manchester-town-transformed-for-mackenzie-crook-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159046\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Manchester town transformed for Mackenzie Crook comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Greater Manchester town has provided the backdrop for a new BBC comedy starring Mackenzie Crook and Sir Michael Palin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The six-part series Small Prophets, which was filmed in Urmston, centres around eccentric DIY shop worker Michael Sleep as he tries to use a magic potion to create homunculi &#8211; mythical prophesying spirits that can predict the future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pearce Quigley, who appeared in Crook&#8217;s previous comedy Detectorists, Bafta award-winning writer and actress Sophie Willan, and Games Of Thrones star Paul Kaye also feature in the show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is set to be released on BBC2 and iPlayer early next year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Greater Manchester town has provided the backdrop for a new BBC comedy starring Mackenzie Crook and Sir&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-159046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}