Daddy Issues

BBC conceives second series of Aimee Lou Wood’s Daddy Issues

Series one of the comedy saw 23-year-old Gemma (Wood) living life to the extreme… until joining the mile high club brought her back down to earth.

Pregnant by a stranger and not wanting to be alone, Gemma decided to move back to Stockport with her hopeless father, Malcolm (Morrissey). She doesn't know how to be a parent, but he doesn’t know how to do basic household tasks. Together they are the perfect fit to struggle through this new era of life together.

Stars from Barbie, Sex Education and Miranda cast in new BBC comedy Daddy Issues

Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) stars as 24-year-old Gemma, recently cast out of her young-wild-and-free lifestyle, after discovering she is pregnant from a one-night stand.

David Morrissey (Sherwood) enters the picture as her father Malcolm. Recently left in the lurch as his now ex-wife jets around the world discovering herself on their life savings, he is unable to do basic household tasks and struggles to boil an egg.