Looking After Jo Jo | |
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Created by | Frank Deasy |
Directed by | John Mackenzie |
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Country of origin | Scotland |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
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Production company | BBC Scotland |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
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Looking After Jo Jo is a 1998 BBC Scotland television drama starring Robert Carlyle.[1]
John Joe "Jo Jo" McCann is petty thief turned drug dealer in 1980's Edinburgh, surviving in a bleak housing estate and aspiring to the trappings of a successful criminal. Unfortunately for him, and for most of the other characters in the mini-series, it is a time of heroin addiction and AIDS.
It is filmed and set in and around the North Sighthill housing estate, with several scenes also filmed in Niddrie.