High Hopes is currently one of the most popular Welsh sitcoms on television. Written by Boyd Clack and Kirsten Jones, it tells the story of Richard "Fagin" Hepplewhite (Robert Blythe) as an agoraphobic ex-criminal who launches an odd-job business in the Welsh valleys, after serving at Strangeways prison.

He lives with his Mam, and two teenage tearaways called Charlie and Hoffman (Ben Evans/Oliver Wood and Steven Meo). As his namesake does in the original Oliver Twist story, 'Fagin' takes the two lads under his wing and together they relentlessly forge new plans to make a pretty penny and cash-in at every opportunity.

High Hopes is set in the fictitious valleys town of Cwm Pen-ol ("Backside Valley") and revolves around working-class folk who have turned to petty crime to survive.

Every week, they enter many scrapes, like stealing Tom Jones' first dickie-bow to finding a famous Welsh painting called Dafydd Ar y Twmp. High Hopes draws its similarities from classic shows like "Only Fools and Horses" (director Gareth Gwenlan played his part in that shows history also), where Richard 'Fagin' Hepplewhite and his humble sidekicks go to every length to cheat the system and find their way out of the struggle that is indeed reality.

Trivia: The series' theme tune is an instrumental version of the 1959 song High Hopes by Frank Sinatra on a harp.

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