Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on 12 April 2012, on Sky Arts 1. Each episode is written by a different writer and stars a different cast. The four-part adaptation of A Country Doctor's Notebook was also broadcast on the strand in December 2012. Sky Arts have announced that they are ordering a five-part spin-off of the third play, Nixon’s The One. They say the full cast, including Harry Shearer as Nixon and Henry Goodman as Kissinger, will return for the series run, which will be filmed in September 2012. The series will broadcast in 2013. The second series began airing in April 2013 featuring Kathy Burke, Frances Barber, Julia Davis, Idris Elba, Anna Friel, Rebecca Front, Stephen Graham, David Harewood, Ian Hart, Sharon Horgan, Mathew Horne, Suranne Jones, Kylie Minogue, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Serafinowicz, Matt Smith, Johnny Vegas, Marc Warren, Jack Whitehall and Reggie Yates.
Playhouse Presents (Season 2)
Hey Diddly Dee (Episode 1)
Writer: Marc Warren
Air date: 2013-04-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: For every star that is born...one has to die. When the star of the show suffers a tragic accident who is to blame? The understudy? A faulty trap door? Or the theatre's lucky cat? A dark comedy-drama about drama.
Snodgrass (Episode 2)
Writer: David Quantick
Air date: 2013-04-25
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A 50 year old John Lennon sits in a dingy kitchen, smoking a roll up, unemployed and on his uppers. This John Lennon walked out on the Beatles in 1962 before the hits -- before they changed music for ever.
The Call Out (Episode 3)
Writer: Carlo Gabriel Nero
Air date: 2013-05-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A disturbance at Union Square leads to some strange encounters for two policemen in this funny and poignant portrait of loneliness in the city.
Pavement Psychologist (Episode 4)
Writer: Idris Elba
Air date: 2013-05-09
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Idris Elba writes and directs this taut drama in which accountant Anna Friel strikes up a unique relationship with homeless man Nonso Anozie.
Mr. Understood (Episode 5)
Writer: Kate Hardie
Air date: 2013-05-16
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: In a funny and thought-provoking tale co-created by artist Grayson Perry, a transvestite battling with issues of self-doubt tries to overcome his fears.
Stage Door Johnnies (Episode 6)
Writer: Catherine McCormack
Air date: 2013-05-23
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Five theatre enthusiasts will stop at nothing to let their idols know how they truly feel...even if it means causing a little accidental grievous bodily harm along the way.
Cargese (Episode 7)
Writer: Simon Stephens
Air date: 2013-06-30
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Matt Smith makes his directorial debut with a tense and stylish drama about two teenagers stuck on a council estate. Written by Simon Stephens, it stars Craig Roberts.
Ragged (Episode 8)
Writer: Andrew Lynch
Air date: 2013-06-06
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Based on Ricky Tomlinson's true experiences campaigning to overturn a verdict which sent him to jail for 2 years in the early 1970s. While in prison and on hunger strike, Ricky is encouraged by a prison governor to read Robert Tressell's book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists -- which changed his life forever.
Gifted (Episode 9)
Air date: 2013-06-13
Overview: Chris has a unique gift,the ability to heal the sick by touching them. He is also a germophobe,which makes him shy away from human contact and live a lonely,secluded life. His sister Eleanor is scornful of his inability to connect with the rest of his family but then he meets Mona,a new colleague and single mother and - in all likelihood - his very first date. But at the same time his mother May is admitted to hospital with cancer. Can his new-found confidence after meeting Mona enable him to save his mother's life?
Episode 95 (Episode 10)
Runtime: 30 min
Episode 96 (Episode 11)
Runtime: 30 min
Episode 97 (Episode 12)
Runtime: 30 min
Episode 98 (Episode 13)
Runtime: 30 min
Psychobitches: Episode 1 (Episode 14)
Air date: 2013-05-30
Runtime: 30 min
Seasons
Episodes 11
Episodes 14
Episodes 9
Episodes 1