News: Dave Announces New Police Comedy

Daniel Rigby

UKTV channel Dave has announced that it is making a brand new comedy series, entitled Undercover, starring Daniel Rigby.

The six-part series is a high stakes action comedy about an undercover police officer who finds himself hopelessly out of his depth when he infiltrates an Armenian crime family. The cast includes BAFTA award-winning Daniel Rigby (Eric and Ernie, Big School, Black Mirror) and Sarah Alexander (Smack The Pony, Coupling).  The series also features Keith Allen (Robin Hood, The Comic Strip Presents...), Ryan Sampson (Plebs, Up The Women, After You’ve Gone), Yasmine Akram (Stella, Sherlock), Brett Goldstein (Uncle) and Michael Socha  (This is England, Being Human)

The sitcom, which will air on Dave in 2015, is co-created and co-written by Andy Milligan (I’m A Celebrity, The Rob Brydon Show) and Sacha Alexander (The Gigolos) who also plays crime boss Ara, and  written with Mark Staheli and directed by Dave Lambert (Common Ground, Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life).  It is a co-production between Bonafide Films and Baby Cow Productions. It will be executive produced by Henry Normal for Baby Cow and Margery Bone for Bonafide who also produces.

Undercover follows the story of Chris (Rigby), a neurotic, over analytical metrosexual who’s been searching for a family his whole life and has finally found one. Unfortunately the family he’s found are a bunch of psychotic Armenian gangsters and Chris is an undercover policeman who’s woefully out of his depth. 

On the basis of his ethnicity (he’s an eighth Greek) the former traffic cop has been chosen to infiltrate Armenian crime family, the Sarkissians. Things are made even more complicated by the fact that Chris is attracted to two women at the same time – Zoe (Sarah Alexander), his ambitious and driven police handler and Lara (Yasmin Akram), the femme fatale of the crime family, which means he spends every waking moment either falling in love or fearing for his life. 

Henry Normal said: “It’s sort of Donnie Brasco as a comedy. Full of tension and jeopardy. I can’t wait to see it on Dave.” 

Richard Watsham, UKTV Director of Commissioning, said: “Baby Cow and Bonafide Films have developed a brilliant set of scripts, dark and funny with an almost frenetic pace to the action. We’ve made a commitment to extending our original scripted content across the network and this is one of the first exciting steps making good on that promise. Expect much more from us soon.”

Steve North, General Manager Dave, added; “We are excited to be extending our comedy remit on Dave by continuing to grow our breadth of original commissions and welcoming some of Britain’s best comedy actors and writing talent to the channel.”

Rigby will also be familiar to TV viewers as the student in the long-running series of BT Broadband adverts.

 

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