This is a visceral and brilliantly evocative crime caper set amongst the crabbing pots and fishing boats of Weymouth harbour. His first stage play Basket Case, starring Nigel Havers, toured 11 top regional theatres in 2012. He also created and wrote the BBC comedy drama series Manchild. Nick has also devised and presented a handful of factual shows, including Screaming Reels, Dirty Tackle, dear Nick. He is a much-published expert in fishing and fish cookery, as well as being author of several highly-regarded teenage advice books for boys. He currently works as a core writer on BBC1’s primetime hospital drama Holby City, for which he has written over 20 episodes. Nick Fisher is a BAFTA-winning TV scriptwriter and series creator who has also gained a diverse range of writing credits in film, radio, stage, print journalism and books. Pot Luck is a thriller with sinister twists, a raggedy mob of opportunists and bottom-feeders, and an ocean of bad blood. It could be the best thing that has ever happened to them – or is it the worst? Every day is a depressing repeat of the one that has gone before - until a discovery in a remote spot of the English Channel changes everything.
A dark, desperate tale of greed, crime, drugs, family, fear – and commercial crab fishing.īrothers Adrian and Matty Collins are close to rock bottom: sick of the sight of each other and barely scraping a living from the only job they have ever known: crab fishing off the south coast.
