Mr. Sloane
Mr. Sloane is a British comedy television series that was first broadcast on Sky Atlantic on 23 May 2014. The six-part series was written by Robert B. Weide, Aschlin Ditta and Oliver Lansley and directed by Robert B. Weide. It is set in Watford in 1969. Overview. 1969 in Watford, Hertfordshire, Jeremy Sloane, a depressed accountant, has lost his job and his wife, Janet. Sloane gets a part-time job, and at a hardware shop he meets a young, free-spirited American manic pixie dream girl named Robin who may just help him get his life back  on track. Production. Filming began in April 2013. The series is a Big Talk Productions and Whyaduck Productions production with BBC Worldwide as the distributor. In October 2014, Sky announced the show would not be returning for a second series. International broadcast. The series premiered in Australia on 15 June 2015 on BBC First.