More cast names have been announced for Jack Whitehall’s new action-comedy drama, Bounty Hunters. It includes Oscar-nominated Rosie Perez (Fearless, White Men Can’t Jump, Do the Right Thing), Robert Lindsay (My Family, Hornblower, GBH) and Charity Wakefield (Wolf Hall, Dr Who, Sense and Sensibility).

Other key cast members include Sophie Thompson (Into the Woods, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows), Bradley James (Merlin, Damien), Ben Bailey Smith (David Brent: Life on the Road, aka comedian Doc Brown), Olga Merediz (Evita), Nigel Betts (Doctor Who, Emmerdale), Corey Johnson (Captain Phillips, The Bourne Ultimatum), Kyle Soller (Poldark) and Christian Ochoa (Pitch, Her Story).

Written by Jack Whitehall and Freddy Syborn, who previously wrote Bad Education together, the Sky1 and NOW TV series will star Whitehall as Barnaby Walker, a British antiques dealer sorting out his family’s cash-strapped antiques business. However, when Barnaby unwittingly buys a “blood antiquity” looted from the war-torn Middle East, he calls on help from tough New York based bounty hunter Nina Morales (Rosie Perez), to return the statue and try to get his money back.

Robert Lindsay will play the role of Barnaby Walker’s father, Nigel. Recently hospitalised after a mystery accident, he had secretly dabbled in the “blood antique” market from within his cluttered Wimbledon antique shop. 

Bounty Hunters will air on Sky 1 and NOW TV in autumn 2017.