New comedy about promoter with nothing to promote

Press, 6 November 1984, Page 15

New comedy about promoter with nothing to promote

A new 8.8. C. comicdrama called “Give Us a Break” will begin screening on One at 8.30 tonight Micky Noades (Robert Lindsay) describes himself as an “over-all concepts man ” a promoter who is lacking only something to promote. His last big scheme with a rock band fell through — no fault of his, of course. As if in answer to his prayers, his girlfriend Tina’s kid brother arrives from Liverpool, looking for action

— and work — in the big city. Mo is sloppy, brash, annoying and a Liverpool Football Club supporter — everything Micky cannot stand. In fact, the exact opposite to .him. But Mo’s one redeeming feature is his outstanding — and unexploited — talent at snooker. Paul McGann, who plays Mo, is no snooker player, and so he was handed over to 44-year-old Geoff Foulds, the resident professional at Ealing Snooker Club, where one of the episodes of “Give

Us a Break” was filmed. “Funnily enough, I played very little snooker there,” said McGann, who is 24. “Of course you can’t learn just like that. Geoff Foulds has been playing for 28 years. What he taught me was to walk with a cue, to chalk a cue and to sit down with a. cue. There are a lot of armchair snooker experts around these days who know what a good player looks like. I played the easy shots but not the difficult ones. But I had to look as if I could handle them.”