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About The Lakes
The Lakes is a British television drama series, created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern, first broadcast on BBC1 on 14 September 1997. Mainly filmed in and around Patterdale and The Ullswater Hotel, Glenridding, the series stars John Simm as Danny Kavanagh, a hotel porter, compulsive gambler, and philanderer who escapes from the dole queues in Liverpool to live in the Lake District. After he meets and marries local girl Emma Quinlan, they move back to Liverpool. However Danny's gambling habit results in Emma moving back to the Lakes. Months later Danny also returns, takes up a job looking after a rowing boat concession and starts to patch up his relationship with Emma.
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