Comedy | UK | 18eps x 29min
Cast: Tom Hollander, Olivia Colman, Steve Evets, Miles Jupp, Simon McBurney, Ellen Thomas, Lucy Liemann, Jimmy Akingbola
Tom Hollander stars as an Anglican vicar promoted from a sleepy rural parish to a failing inner-city church.
Adam Smallbone (Tom Hollander) is an Anglican priest who has moved from a small rural parish to the "socially disunited" St Saviour in the Marshes in Hackney, East London. Unwilling to turn anyone away from his pastoral care, he is faced with a series of moral challenges as he balances the needs of genuine believers, people on the streets, and drug addicts, as well as the demands of social climbers using the church to get their children into the best schools.
Adam has a difficult job as a modern city vicar. His wife Alex (Olivia Colman), who has her own career as a solicitor to worry about, supports him through his life as a priest, while not being engaged with his work. He is also supported by lay reader Nigel (Miles Jupp), who believes he should be running the church. In supervision is Archdeacon Robert (Simon McBurney), who puts pressure on Adam to increase the congregation and church income.
Parishioners include Colin (Steve Evets), a heavy drinking, unemployable lost soul who is Adam's most devoted parishioner; Adoha (Ellen Thomas), known for her romantic intentions towards the clergy; and Mick (Jimmy Akingbola), who is homeless and appears on Adam's doorstep in different situations asking for money.
The program reaches its denouement at the end of Season 3 in the series finale.