The Power of Parker

Created and written by Sian Gibson and Paul Coleman, and starring Conleth Hill as businessman Martin Parker in Stockport in 1990, trying to juggle his debts, his wife, and his mistress.

[1] In Stockport, 1990, Martin Parker (Hill) has a complicated life with personal issues and business debts but things could get worse if his mistress Kath (Gibson) and wife Diane (Cavaliero) team up to bring him down.

[5] The show was commissioned in 2022 under the title Undoing Martin Parker and was filmed in Stockport in early 2023.

[7] Lucy Mangan in The Guardian wrote: "this comedy-drama wishes it was a Victoria Wood show".

[8] Rachel Cooke in the New Statesman described it as “comic perfection”, but that with its 1990 setting and jokes about “Anneka Rice and Juliet Bravo”, it may be “only half comprehensible to anyone under 45”.