KB Productions present The Bookies. Two Edinburgh bookies feel the pressure of signing customers up for online betting accounts, signing their own jobs away in the process. They come up with a plan to fight back. But a mountaineer from Mount Everest gets in their way. Writing duo Mikey Burnett and Joe McCann have written a piece reminiscent of Gregory Burke’s Gagarin Way. The Bookies is a warts and all examination of the contemporary betting industry in the UK. Tackling the damage it causes, the toll it takes on those who work in the business and those who gamble, all told through the eyes of a veteran bookmaker and his young black cashier.