Bernard Black runs his quaint and customer free bookshop, with his assistant Manny and friend Fran. They embark on a multitude of drunken adventures mostly confined within the atmospheric bookshop.
Black Books is a sitcom that was originally created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan, the later of which went on to develop The IT Crowd. The series won the BAFTA for Best Situational Comedy in 2001 and 2005.