Black Books

About Black Books

Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant.

Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan created Black Books, a comedy series for Channel 4. Its 3 seasons and 18 episodes were broadcast from September 2000 to April 2004. That is around 6 episodes a season.

Dylan Moran leads the cast as Bernard, Bill Bailey as Manny, and Tamsin Greig as Fran. It comes from Assembly Film and Television, Big Talk Studios, and Channel 4 Television.

Members will find surreal, surrealism, eccentric, and misanthrophy in it. American members can watch it on fuboTV.

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Spaced, and Toast of London make useful companions to Black Books, all filed under sitcom and workplace comedy. It scores 8.1 out of 10 from 639 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-PG rating.