This week saw the launch of BBC’s three part comedy entitled Sunshine which stars Steve Coogan and deals with the life of a gambling addict who just can’t help raising the stakes.

Written by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey (who were behind the award winning Early Doors and the Royale Family) Sunshine is the story of three generations of the Crosby Family.

Bing has been fascinated with gambling since he was a child. Bernadette was his childhood sweetheart and, in spite of his addiction, they have become a couple.
 
The family is completed by their eight-year-old son, Joe, and Bing's father, George.
 
The relationship between grandson and granddad is a golden one – based on absolute trust and mutual affection.
 
But Bing's gambling spirals out of control, his losses reach unsustainable levels, and the only thing left to lose is his wife and son.

Speaking about his role in Sunshine Coogan, the star of Alan Partridge, said "I think Bing is like a lot of working class men in the 21st century, struggling to be the kind of person he wants to be but is being pulled by an addiction.
 
"He has an addiction which is gambling, and so he reveals a sort of Jekyll and Hyde character.
 
"In practice and reality he's not particularly attentive so the main thing is that he's just a decent, happy-go-lucky fellow who's been drawn into the dark side."

Award winning actor Bernard Hill plays Bing’s father in the series and speaking about his character said “"What I've tried to do is make him responsible, in the sense that he's responsible to some extent for Bing's personality problems.
 
"So he's skipped a generation and he's gone for the grandson to redeem himself in a way.
 
"I think people might read into that because I think that happens a lot; the fact that he's so devoted to the grandson he's trying to make up for time that he missed with his son.

The first of the three episodes airs on Tuesday night at 9pm on BBC One.

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