Writer & Director / Comedy / 2024

The Baths

The Baths is a mockumentary about a northern leisure centre on the brink of closure.

Set in Padiham Leisure Centre and starring Burnley actress Alice Barry, who played Lillian Tyler in Shameless, the show focuses on a day in the life of staff working at a local swimming baths which is under threat due to proposed plans for a modernised leisure complex. The pilot episode centres around the complicated dynamics between staff members at fictional 'Gorple Baths' as they all compete to win the title of 'Employee of the Month’, which is heavily impacting on the usual footfall, so the management are doing all they can to keep it afloat.

This project is currently in development with House Productions.

  • DOP & Editor: George Haydock
    Edit assembly: Didzis Starastins
    Sound Recordist: Edward Eaton
    Camera Assistant: Megan Kinsella
    Production Designer - Lucy Rose Gregory
    Grade: Jax Harney
    BTS: Sam Crowston & Tom Lally
    VFX: Natalie Meziani
    Theme Music: Tom Diffenthal
    Poster: Tasha
    Produced by Rosie Hartley
    A Zomdic Film production.

    Cast
    Alice Barry
    Mark Newsome
    Lucy Polgar
    Abaid Hussain
    Liam Tulley
    Peter Quinn
    Padiham Leisure Centre staff and members