Paddy McGuinness has joined the cast of The Delivery Man.
The Take Me Out host will play Ian in the ITV sitcom, the best friend of ex-police officer Matthew (Darren Boyd).
The Delivery Man follows Matthew, who quits his job as a policeman and becomes a midwife on a maternity ward.
The six-episode series also stars Aisling Bea, Fay Ripley, Alex MacQueen and Llewella Gideon.
The Delivery Man was picked up for a full series after a pilot aired earlier this year.
Written by Green Wing's Robert Harley and James Henry, the series will air on ITV in 2015.
It will be joining returning comedies Benidorm, Birds of a Feather and Vicious.
The Take Me Out host will play Ian in the ITV sitcom, the best friend of ex-police officer Matthew (Darren Boyd).
The Delivery Man follows Matthew, who quits his job as a policeman and becomes a midwife on a maternity ward.
The six-episode series also stars Aisling Bea, Fay Ripley, Alex MacQueen and Llewella Gideon.
The Delivery Man was picked up for a full series after a pilot aired earlier this year.
Written by Green Wing's Robert Harley and James Henry, the series will air on ITV in 2015.
It will be joining returning comedies Benidorm, Birds of a Feather and Vicious.
- 11/19/2014
- Digital Spy
ITV has ordered a full series of sitcom The Delivery Man after a successful pilot.
Darren Boyd and Aisling Bea will star in the comedy about a policeman who decides to become a midwife.
The new six-episode series follows a pilot episode filmed earlier this year, which also starred Fay Ripley, Alex Macqueen and Dominic Coleman.
Written by Green Wing's Robert Harley and James Henry, the series is expected to air on ITV in mid-2015.
It will be produced and directed by Green Wing creator Victoria Pile.
Further casting details are expected to be announced in the coming months, ahead of its recording in October.
Boyd is best known for his roles in Sky1's Spy and for playing John Cleese in the drama Holy Flying Circus. He appeared in an episode of HBO's Veep earlier this year.
Darren Boyd and Aisling Bea will star in the comedy about a policeman who decides to become a midwife.
The new six-episode series follows a pilot episode filmed earlier this year, which also starred Fay Ripley, Alex Macqueen and Dominic Coleman.
Written by Green Wing's Robert Harley and James Henry, the series is expected to air on ITV in mid-2015.
It will be produced and directed by Green Wing creator Victoria Pile.
Further casting details are expected to be announced in the coming months, ahead of its recording in October.
Boyd is best known for his roles in Sky1's Spy and for playing John Cleese in the drama Holy Flying Circus. He appeared in an episode of HBO's Veep earlier this year.
- 8/6/2014
- Digital Spy
I wasn’t a fan of Green Wing, the semi-improved comedy based on scripts that were a hodgepodge of jokes, sketches and sight gags gathered from a hive-mind of writers. It was an interesting way to produce a single-camera sitcom, and one that clearly found an audience, but I found its scattergun approach quite tiring. Many of Green Wing‘s writers are behind Channel 4′s new comedy offering Campus, which won’t escape “Green Wing in a university” branding, because that’s exactly what it is. The uni’s motto is even “with wings”.
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“Publication, Publication, Publication” was a 70-minute extension of the half-hour Comedy Showcase pilot from 2009 (including adverts), which basically means there was an awful lot of filler. But this filler is exactly what Campus thrives on, as it’s really just an extended sequence of sketches and non sequiturs. Jonty De Wolfe (Andy Nyman) is the...
- 4/6/2011
- by Dan Owen
- Obsessed with Film
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