BBC

The Clan is comedy set on the fictional West Coast island of Rhuck. If The Simpsons is a satire on urban domesticity, The Clan is a satire on rural island life. Its mission is to re-mythologise a nation and reposition it with a contemporary comedic perspective: to take the twee, porridged up, whiskied out Highland and Island Scotland that we're famous for to a very strange place indeed.

The islanders live on a floating Highland island where you need a passport to get your breakfast at the B and B (to check you're not English) and where the policeman is so desperate for crimes he tries to arrest his next-door neighbour for 'littering' the island ducks with bread. It's the kind of place where neighbouring crofters have Spaghetti Western type stand offs on the island's only passing place - which can last for days. There are strange, inter-island traditional games with local rivals Skyree, like 'island tennis'. It's a gentle world with a personality that has real warmth, charm, beauty and affection - directly contrasting the predominance of the 'heroin and hard man' face of Urban Scottish comedy.

It's 'comedy of the lovingly stupid'.  It has the mind of a child and the heart of an idiot. It's Father Ted meets Balamory. The series explores universal themes and is closely observed. It is timeless: no contemporary reference point characters. It's aimed at a cutting edge pre-watershed audience.

The pilot was broadcast on Radio Scotland. It was directed by Oscar nominated animation director Sylvain Chomet. Voices by Ashley Jensen, Sandy Nelson, Michelle Gomez, Richard Wilson and Gavin Mitchell.