Porridge

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2016 · 1 episode

Forty years on from the original series, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais present a brand new episode of the classic sitcom Porridge. Kevin Bishop plays Fletch, grandson of Ronnie Barker's iconic character, who is in prison for cyber crimes and getting himself into more trouble while he is in there...

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Pilot

   28 Aug 2016

   After being caught and put on trial for hacking credit cards and committing other cyber crimes for personal gain, Nigel Norman Fletcher is sentenced to five years at Wakeley Prison. A few weeks after arriving, Fletcher finds himself sharing his cell with a new prisoner, Joe Lotterby, a senior criminal who knew his grandfather in the past. Meanwhile, Richie Weeks, a hardened criminal who runs an enterprise in the prison, requests that Fletcher use his IT skills to sanitise his record, to ensure his upcoming parole hearing goes without a hitch, though things do not go as smoothly as Fletcher hopes for.