Airdate: Bucket

UK comedy Bucket, starring Miriam Margoyles, will air on ABC next month.

She stars as 70 year old mother Mim on a road trip with daughter Fran (Frog Stone).

This aired in the UK in April.

For her 70th birthday, Mim Morgenstein (Miriam Margoyles) wants her only child Fran (Frog Stone) to drive them on “the mini-break they never had”.

After a childhood dream was ruined for the second time, Fran vows never to go anywhere with her mother again, but Mim has a devastating trump card up her sleeve. She’s dying. And there’s no way Mim is going to sit at home and wait for death.

She’s compiled a “bucket list” of destinations she simply has to see to die happy. This is Mim’s dream. For Fran, this is her nightmare: spending time with the mad mother who sprinted naked around the quads at Cambridge; is determined to go sky-diving; and refused to attend her graduation. But the stakes are high – it’s now or never for a mother and child reunion – so she says yes.

Each episode contains a self-contained story that illuminates aspects of the mother-daughter relationship, from guilt and blame to love and affection and right back again. But there is also an unfolding narrative across the series with secrets, lies and a few well-cooked chickens coming home to roost…

Creator/writer and star Frog Stone, Executive Producer: Judy Counihan (Fresh Meat) for Solution 3 Productions; Producer: Katie Mavroleon (David Brent: Life on The Road).

9pm Thursday November 2 on ABC.