The Family Pile

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The Family Pile

Series overview

The Family Pile is a comedic exploration of one of life’s big milestones, via four sisters who have lost their parents and are packing up the family home to sell.

But even in grief their messy lives go on...

The series will star Amanda Abbington (Sherlock, Mr Selfridge), Clare Calbraith (Home Fires, Downton Abbey), Claire Keelan (Nathan Barley, No Heroics), and Alexandra Mardell (Coronation Street) as the sisters with Kieran O'Brien, Richard Pepple and James Nelson-Joyce.

Filmed entirely in the Liverpool City Region with the support of Liverpool Film Office’s Production Fund and to be distributed by Hat Trick International.

Written by Brian Dooley with Phil Warburton-Leach as producer, Fergal Costello as director and Jimmy Mulville and Angela Sinden as Executive Producers.

The Family Pile is a brand new 6 x 30’ comedy from Hat Trick Productions

Episode 1:

Nicole has sneaked her late parents’ house onto the market, but when her sisters cause as much strife as they do, and offer as little help, can you blame her? And soon she has a second secret to keep.