Leap off the top rope into the glitzy-but-grimy world of British professional wrestling and fall in love with the gang of misfits trying to keep a family business alive.
Quick-witted and rebellious HOLLY (Jahannah James) is a frustrated wannabe wrestler. And she’s just found herself facing the challenge of a lifetime.
When all of BOSS Pro Wrestling’s top talent are poached by her brother NICK NITRO (Richard Fleeshman), causing Holly’s mum - chain-smoking company owner PAM (Pippa Haywood) - to suffer a massive heart attack, it looks as though it’s game over. But there’s one hope: If Holly can bring together BOSS Pro’s remaining gang of young rejects, the company might just survive.
Holly’s hopes of making it to Slamageddon – BOSS Pro’s big show – rest on a team anyone else would give up on. Anxiety-stricken but talented newbie JACK (Max Olesker) has enrolled as a trainee after a total life meltdown. He hopes to find himself while driving the ‘BOSS company car’ - actually his own ageing Toyota. Instead, he finds a blossoming odd-couple friendship with freewheeling, eccentric roadie WOODHOUSE (Ivan Gonzalez). On the road to Slamageddon, Woodhouse starts to teach Jack to live in the moment - and Jack teaches Woodhouse how to not actually shit himself when he bounces off the ropes.
Also crammed into the car are the mighty BEN (Paul Olima), easily confused, but with a heart of gold; fast-talking hustler MYA (Sasha Desouza-Willock); debonair-but-past-it former champion CLIFFORD BAXTER ‘The Gentleman Grappler’ (Alistair Petrie); and BERTHA (Sharon Rooney), a woman of few words but an overabundance of confidence and bizarre, home-made costumes. It’s a diverse, weird and wonderful group – an unlikely crowd who find companionship in (or sat beside) the ring.
We join the BOSS crew as they embark on a journey of spandex, slams, and self-discovery, leading towards the biggest fight of their lives - a battle of wills with the obnoxious Nick Nitro and his awful crew.
Plus, with her overly-protective mum out of the way, Holly might just make it into the ring herself – under a mask, who would even know, right…?
DEEP HEAT is a hilarious warmhearted ensemble sitcom about friendship, families born and made, overcoming the odds and finding one’s place in the world. But also about sex (mainly wildly unsatisfying one-night stands), drugs (mainly post-match painkillers) and rock and roll (i.e. going absolutely overboard…on the buffet-food at Britain’s worst holiday camp).