There’s an unsettling feeling that the people running things have lost the plot. The Ministry of Muntz puts that feeling in ceremonial robes, hands it a glass of red wine, and drops it in a small outback community that didn’t ask for any of it.
The Ministry of Muntz is a show about belonging – about finding your tribe and your place in the world, and why it matters more than status, relevance or the life you thought you were supposed to have.
Running underneath that is a quieter theme about faith – not just religious faith, but faith in people, in community, and in the possibility that change is still possible. The show isn’t a critique of faith. If anything, it’s a story about someone slowly, reluctantly, finding his way back to it.
What unites all of it is found family. Six people with no obvious reason to be together, in a small town that refuses to disappear, discovering that the connections they didn’t plan for are the ones that turn out to matter most. That’s the thread running through every episode, every relationship and every theme.
The Ministry of Muntz is a comedy about a man who arrives looking for a way out and slowly, without quite noticing, finds his way home.
30min pilot script
Written by Iain Crittenden
The Archbishop’s Origin Story
Archbishop Muntz was a character in episdoes 6 and 7 of Plausible Deniability, an award-winning web series supported by Screen Australia.
The series was selected for 11 international festivals, received 26 nominations and took home six wins including Best Comedy and Best Episode at the British Web Awards.
The Archbishop episode drew three times the viewers of any other, with audiences and festival judges alike responding to the same thing: a character with a rare combination of charm, self-delusion and unexpected heart.
The series has been developed with Darren attached to reprise the role that won him Best Supporting Actor at the British Web Awards and Best Actor
at the IndieX Film Fest in Los Angeles. A character he clearly owns, and audiences have already chosen.