The Accidental Time Traveller

Life on Mars meets It's a Wonderful Life in this inventive romantic comedy that looks at what we can learn from the past… Journalist Rosie Hartford is having an odd day. Or one hell of a hangover… Having had a blazing row with her boyfriend - fellow journalist Will - she reluctantly sets off for her latest assignment: an interview with one of the residents of The Meadows, a grotty local estate about to become the set for a major reality TV show, The 1950s House. But stepping through the front door, Rosie finds herself in a different house - and transported back in time.

Everything is grey and drab - the food, the clothes, the TV.

It's like the world is in permanent black and white. It's not long before Rosie realises what's going on.

She's obviously a contestant on the 1950s show! She's pretty miffed she's not been given warning, but she might as well give it a go - after all, the cameras are always watching and the first rule of reality TV is always keep smiling… But what really sends Rosie into a spin is the fact that Will is there too - but here he is known as Billy and has been married since he was 16 to Rosie's best friend.

In the 1950s, Will/Billy is a family man and devoted father, a side to him that Rosie finds hard to imagine.

He grows vegetables, repairs shoes and even has a shed.

He is, in fact, a grown up. The truth slowly dawns on Rosie that this is reality, not reality TV.

After she gets over the shock, she begins to embrace daily life 1950s-style.

Gone are the excessive consumerism, drifting relationships and cheap thrills of the Noughties.

In its place is make do and mend, commitment, duty and honour. Together Rosie and Billy make a great team, covering dramatic local stories, and inevitably growing closer until Rosie falls in love with Will/Billy all over again.

But now he has a wife and kids and is out of bounds… Unless she can get back to 2008…