Pete Jackson

Matt Smith to star as titular lothario in adaptation of Nick Cave's The Death of Bunny Munro

Bunny Munro (Smith) is a door-to-door beauty product salesman, self-professed womaniser and the last person you'd call on to father a son. Nonetheless, he finds himself burdened with nine-year-old Bunny Junior when his wife Libby takes her own life.

"Letting any child out into the big wide world is scary": Pete Jackson on Somewhere Boy, fatherhood and monsters

Although it fast became one of the most celebrated British dramas of the year, it seemed to land quietly on Channel 4 and from unfamiliar parts.

It turns out that we have the writer Pete Jackson to thank, and it's only his first TV series.