Meera Syal – MRQE

Forgive and Forget (TV)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

David O’Neil, a plasterer and mature student Theo have been best mates for fourteen years and are practically inseparable. However, their friendship has become strained as Theo is about to move in with his long-term girlfriend, photographer Hannah. A raging jealousy awakes in David and he starts scheming to break up the loving couple using Hannah’s insecurities against them. When the couple eventually separate David is in a quandary about his next move and is forced to confront his long-hidden homosexuality and feelings towards Theo. Eventually, David decides to reveal his sexual orientation and deep love for Theo very publicly by arranging for them both to appear as guests on Judith Adams’ talk-show, “forgive and forget”, with tragic consequences for their friendship and David’s family.

The Smeds and the Smoos (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this animated intergalactic adventure, the red Smeds and the blue Smoos must learn to overcome their differences and work together to find young Janet and Bill who eloped to escape their families long standing rivalries.

Samosa & Sons

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A submissive small-town man married to an ultra-modern cosmopolitan is brainwashed into producing a son by his dead father’s ghost. In time, he is hit by a startling realisation.

The Almond and the Seahorse

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

For Gwen, it’s always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn’t recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe’s past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fears she will be forgotten. A doctor refuses to give up on them, determined not to let them unravel.

Dragon Rider

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An unlikely trio of heroes a dragon, a boy and a forest brownie embark on an epic adventure to find the Rim of Heaven – the mythological safe haven for all dragons.

“Revenge Club, The”

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Six strangers are brought together by a divorce support group who quickly transform from therapy-seeking victims into architects of retribution. With little in common beyond their pain, they form an unlikely bond. What begins as a cathartic outlet quickly spirals into something far more dangerous.

Desert Flower

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.

Mad Sad & Bad

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a 90-minute comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It’s about mid-thirties siblings and friends whose personal lives are continuously messed up by their own selfish needs. Mad, Sad and Bad explores our contemporary metropolitan neuroses through the intersecting lives of these siblings and their friends. The narrative slips from one character to the next as they escape and attack each other. all reluctant members of the same dysfunctional family. Written by Ed Barratt

Mad Sad & Bad

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Yesterday (2019/III)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in an English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. After a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that he’s the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles.