Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
- Studio: BBC
- Keyword: career, black and white, consequences, alcoholic son
- Cast: Lorcan Cranitch, Luke de Woolfson, Laurence Doherty, Laura Donnelly, Richard Dormer, Michelle Fairley
