Size matters tonight on TV One

Things are tough for Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane, The Punisher) these days. A former high-school sports legend turned middle-aged high school basketball coach, he’s a divorced dad in dire straits, struggling to make ends meet and regain control of his life. Because desperate times call for desperate measures, the well-endowed Ray decides to exploit his best asset in a last-ditch attempt to change his fortunes, in TV ONE’s new series Hung, starting tonight at 9.35pm.

Years ago, as a student at Detroit’s West Lakefield High School, Drecker was athletic, popular and destined for success. Today, as a West Lakefield teacher and coach of the varsity basketball team (which is on an unprecedented losing streak), he’s underpaid, uninsured and embittered that his wife of 20 years (Anne Heche, Men In Trees) left him for her dermatologist, Ronnie Haxon (Eddie Jemison, Ocean’s Thirteen).

After fire damages to the rundown lakeside home he inherited from his parents, Ray’s fortunes reach an ultimate low when his twin children Darby (Sianoa Smit-McPhee, As The Bell Rings) and Damon (Charlie Saxton, The Lovely Bones), who had been living with him, move in with their mum and her smug husband.

Lonely, run down and at wit’s end, Ray attends a self-help class, where the mantra is to identify a personal ‘winning tool’ to market for financial success. After a not-so-fulfilling encounter with fellow attendee Tanya Skagle (Jane Adams, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind), a would-be poet, Ray has a ‘eureka’ moment. With the help of Tanya, the well-endowed Ray sets out to exploit his greatest asset in hopes of changing his fortunes.

Created by Dmitry Lipkin (The Riches) and Colette Burson, the show uses dark humour to tell the story of a man fighting to survive personal setbacks that have been compounded by a troubled economy.

Missed an episode of Hung – full episodes are available online. Go to tvnz.co.nz and click the ‘ondemand’ button.

- TVNZ

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