'Mental patient' sitcom commissioned

Tommy Tiernan is making his own sitcom for Sky.

The Irish comic will write, direct and star in the show, which will revolve around a discharged psychiatric patient who goes back to living with his with his mother.

The as-yet untitled series of six half-hour shows will be shot around his home county of Meath later this year.

Speaking to Ray D'Arcy on Ireland’s Today FM yesterday, Tiernan said the commission followed a Little Crackers short he made for Sky1 last Christmas.

‘They came back to me and said, “Would you like to do a series?” and I said, “I’d love to. Can I write, direct and act in it?” and they said “Of course you can.”

‘It’s about a fella – myself- just released from a psychiatric hospital who goes home to live with his mother. That’s the premise of the show. That’s the vague canvas of it. It's a bit of craic.’

He also mentioned two other characters: his bedridden father and a brother ‘who’s into bodybuilding’.

Tiernan’s Little Cracker was bout how a therapist advised his father to ‘unleash his inner dog’ and bark out the stresses that were making his marriage difficult.

Tiernan previously starred in the 1999 Channel 4 sitcom, Small Potatoes, Tiernan, about an underachiever who works in a video shop.

Published: 15 Mar 2013