Adrian Shergold

After learning from a TV news report that Danish prisoners have it way better than he does in his day-to-day life, Englishman Herb (Rafe Spall) smuggles himself into Denmark aboard a cargo ship, with the intention of getting locked up. 

UK comedy-drama charting the rise of a comedian (Maxine Peake, The Theory of Everything), set against a backdrop of Northern England working men's clubs in the '70s and '80s.