Auteur: Peter Kay

Format: PAL

Éditeur: VCI

Date de sortie: 10-11-2003

Détails: Description du produit Legendary social club owner Brian Potter and his band of staff and regulars are determined to make the Phoenix Club successful no matter what. Nothing will get in their way… Amazon.fr Created by and starring Bolton-born comic Peter Kay, Phoenix Nights is one of those rare gems that few saw on first showing but that everyone was soon talking about. The first series introduces wheelchair-bound Brian Potter (Kay), who runs the titular Phoenix, a shabby social club populated by an assortment of wonderfully observed characters. It’s grim up North and despite the best efforts of the staff to inject life into the proceedings–be it an alternative comedy night, a version of Robot Wars in Potter’s beloved Pennine Suite or a Wild West extravaganza–each evening’s entertainment always ends badly. Undaunted, the Phoenix denizens continue to strive for their dream: a world in which « clubland never dies ». The beginning of the second series sees Brian Potter’s beloved Phoenix Club lying in ashes and the staff scattered to the four winds. Even club compere Jerry St Clair is reduced to singing « Come get your black bin bags » to the tune of Men in Black in the local supermarket. But not even being barred from having a licence for the rest of his natural life can deter the northern Svengali from reopening the club and making it bigger and better than before–even if that means making Jerry the licensee and offering up-market Chinese nosh. –Kristen Bowditch