Chris McCausland, who made history by becoming a winner of Strictly Come Dancing, will be coming live in a new holiday movie, Bad Tidings, that aired on Sky.
Bad Timings revolves very much around Scott (Chris McCausland) and Neil (Lee Mack), two bitter neighbour enemies who are always arguing over Christmas lights and trash cans, as well as Scott’s appointment as the head of Neighbourhood Watch.
But when the suburb plunges into darkness, they will be forced to come together to save their neighbourhood from an onslaught that promises to be criminally heralded by the infamous Brennan crime family.
How then can you view such a new holiday film, but who are the actors of this eagerly awaited movie? Know Bad Tidings Review in detail here.
McCausland and Lee Mack get back together in Bad Tidings after rekindling their off-screen relationship, once sparked by their memorable on-stage appearance at the 2022 Baftas and sealed with a rather cameo appearance on Not Going Out, which felt like an even longer episode of the series.
Again they are neighbours on a suburban Stockport street who are first at odds when McCausland’s character Scott insists on keeping his Christmas lights up all year round, even though he is blind.
In a petty act of rivalry, Neil, played by Mack, a home security specialist, faces a midlife crisis and responds by airfielding his house and cutting off electrical power to the whole neighbourhood on Christmas Eve.
For that, the street is deserted because everyone left. You may have well imagined this, but very soon the Brennan crime family, headed by newly divorced matriarch Stacey (played by Rebecca Staton), makes her home visit on the very crime opportunity of simple burglary pickings.
Only Neil and Scott, who also happened to be members of Neighborhood Watch, were left behind to guard the gifts. Of course, this means almost shortly afterwards, these crooks are Home Aloned into submission.
That is a big disadvantage as most of the action occurs during the night in houses with no electricity. However, it’s an advantage for Scott over the ne’er-do-wells and gives the whole movie a depressing, gloomy quality that will in no way be celebratory.
Bad Tidings, however, comes across mostly as a sitcom special that is simply too huge for its Santa boots. Much of this is overshadowed- fortunately or unfortunately the charmingly comic chemistry between Mack and McCausland.
Bad Tidings Cast 2024
Lee and Chris have earlier done the Not Going Out episode:
The Train and presented an award together at the TV BAFTAs, apart from their on-screen connection. Bad Tidings cast is further supplemented by:
- Rebekah Staton (Raised by Wolves, The Midwich Cuckoos)
- Ben Crompton (COBRA, Game of Thrones, Wolfe)
- Sarah Alexander (Green Wing, Stardust, Smack the Pony)
- Millie Kiss (An American in Austen, Eight for Silver)
- Emily Coates (The Little Mermaid, Cursed, and The Great)
- Changing Ends by Josiah Eloi
- Tupelo Dorgu,
- Sunil Patel
- Donna Preston
- Rich Keeble.
Watching Bad Tidings
Bad Tidings premiered on Sky and NOW on December 22. With the new Essential TV package, Sky customers can enjoy more than 100 channels, including Sky Atlantic, along with a whole library of movies and television shows from Netflix and Discovery+ for just £15 a month this holiday season and beyond.