MEANTIME: FRANKIE BOYLE'S DEBUT CRIME NOVEL SET FOR TV DRAMA ADAPTATION AT SKY

The Sun newspaper has revealed that Sky have commissioned a new TV drama adaptation of comedian Frankie Boyle's hit crime novel Meantime.

The synopsis reads: "Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the local park, he goes looking for answers to questions that he quickly forgets. Felix enlists the help of a brilliant but mercurial GP; a bright young trade unionist; a failing screenwriter; semi-celebrity crime novelist Jane Pickford; and his crisis fuelled downstairs neighbour Donnie.

Their investigation sends them on a bewildering expedition that takes in Scottish radical politics, Artificial Intelligence, cults, secret agents, smugglers and vegan record shops."

Meanwhile, in The Death Of Bunny Munro, BAFTA and Emmy-nominated actor Matt Smith (House of the Dragon, The Crown) stars in the Sky Original adaptation of Nick Cave’s darkly comic novel The Death of Bunny Munro in the titular role.

Following his wife Libby’s suicide, sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro finds himself saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting.

Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior he embarks on an epic and increasingly out-of-control road trip across Southern England as the two struggle to contain their grief in very different ways.

As Bunny bounces from one sales pitch to the next, trying to seduce any woman he meets, Bunny Junior kills time talking to the ghost of his mother and distracting himself from the dawning realisation that his dad isn’t just fallible, he’s a mess.

As he starts to unravel, Bunny realises he must do something to rescue his son from his own outdated notions of what it is to be a man. The Death of Bunny Munro is a darkly comic and unflinching modern-day parable as well as a tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.

The search for an actor to play the young Bunny Junior is already underway, with the hope of uncovering an exciting new talent.

The Death Of Bunny Munro is available now on Sky.