MARY QUEEN OF SHOPS : HT BURT

OPTOMEN TV FOR BBC

1 x 60

Retail Guru Mary Portas tries to save H.T Burt an unsuccessful Manchester menswear shop, stuck in a Grace Brothers past

Responsible for scripting, creating warm and funny actuality sequences, directing a large cast of characters and indomitable Mary on location. Filming second camera and editing a well-crafted amusing tearjerker. It got great reviews.

‘Terrific Edition’. The Telegraph

‘More than a mere triumph, it is some sort of retail epiphany'. The Times

‘I am not ashamed to say it brought a tear to my normally parched eye’. The Observer  

My episode was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award.

A hit with 2.6 million viewers. And the series has been shown around the world.