Bernard Black is back for a third season of his multi-award winning and critically acclaimed comedy. lack Books continues to explore the musing, doing and time-wasting techniques of raddled proprietor Bernard Black, his shy, multi-challenged assistant Manny Bianco and their underachieving friend Fran Katzenjammer. This dubious trio form a family to protect each other from the realities of modern London, but nothing can protect them from each other.