'It's a little bit Only Fools and Horses' says creator Rhys Thomas

The BBC is developing a new sitcom about scaffolders.

Rhys Thomas is working on a script for Scaffs, which has received a ‘healthy development budget’ from the corporation

He told the Radio Times that the show is set in Frinton-on-Sea in Essex, and with a premise that was ‘a little bit Only Fools and Horses but set now’.

‘There aren’t many things that really represent working class life on telly,’ he added. That’s why I want to do it. I t would be quite nice to make something that the whole family could watch that doesn’t have any swearing but isn’t naff.’

The news follows the revelation that Channel 4 is making a new comedy series from Mark O'Sullivan and Miles Chapman about a pair of dodgy cockney builders, Lee & Dean, for its on-demand service All 4. 

Thomas also told Radio Times that he is working on a comedy drama set in a caravan park full of divorced men.

The script is said to be modelled on his father, who moved into a caravan site on a temporary basis…. and stayed for 18 years

Published: 9 May 2017