Uncle

- Season 1

(2014)

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Failed slacker musician Andy, dumped by his girlfriend Gwen, is about to kill himself when his sister Sam rings and asks him to collect his nephew Errol from football practice. Andy takes Errol with him to the club run by Gwen's seedy, cross-dressing father in an effort to win her back but he fails. As Andy drives Errol home the pair bond as they appreciate that they are both misfits.

After being moved on for busking Andy visits Gwen but is thrown out by her loutish new boyfriend Casper. He agrees to baby-sit a supposedly poorly Errol but finds he is shamming to get out going to school-mate Alfie's birthday party. Andy persuades him to go with him but Alfie bullies Errol and Alfie's boastful father Tom is equally obnoxious. Fortunately Andy and Errol meet up with a pair of allies to get revenge on the dreadful twosome.

Andy wants to take part in the Battle of the Bands, the prize being a residency at Val's club, which will mean he is near to Gwen. None of the musicians he auditions for his band are to his liking but Errol turns out to be an excellent keyboard player and so a duo is born. Andy tries to help Errol get a date with Ruby, a girl from school whom he fancies but this goes wrong when Ruby assumes Errol is gay because Andy thought he was doing the right thing in saying Errol liked One Direction. However the duo's performance at the battle goes down well, impressing both ...

After spending the night with Shelley Andy is 'persuaded' by Sam to give her moral support at a family lunch hosted by Joan, mother of Sam's ex-husband Ben. Also attending is Ben's brother Rex, a trendy doctor back from voluntary work in Africa and Andy is immediately jealous, sabotaging his cookery and causing an accident in a football game. Sam tries to keep her past drug and drink addiction from Joan since Ben is wrangling for Errol's custody now that he has a new girlfriend. When it is revealed that Andy had sex with Joan twelve years ago and Andy's friend Bruce ...

Errol is going on a school trip to a farm and dreading it. Andy tells Sam he finds Shelley clinging and hopes to get back with Gwen, which seems likely when Gwen turns up for afternoon delight, claiming to have broken with Casper. After she has left Shelley returns but Andy is getting high with Melodie, Errol's teacher, and then Gwen comes back to say she has made it up with Casper. Andy cannot explain why there are three women in his life so they all dump him, after which he goes to collect Errol, who has fled the school trip.

Andy gets a call from Mo Khan, head of Rage Records, impressed by the demo Andy sent him. In the event though Mo only wants to sign up Errol - who is wary, but thinks it will help his family if he goes ahead. However Errol's earnest ecology message does not go down well and then he accidentally eats Mo's ecstasy tablets, mistaking them for mints. With Errol rushed to hospital and Sam fighting Ben at court for the custody of Errol Andy has to prove that he is the best - or worst - uncle in the world to help his sister.