Award winning actress and comedian Daisy May Cooper has written and is to star in a new comedy-thriller series which is set to premier on BBC One in the coming weeks.
Cooper, 35, will be playing Nic, one half of the iconic friendship double-act alongside her real life friend and fellow actress, Selin Hizli, who will play Jen.
Hand-in-hand with her young son, Jen arrives to town just in time to disrupt Nic's lonesome life. Bringing a mix of fun, laughter and a whole lot of booze with her, Jen also encourages her son to befriend Nic's toddler Ollie.
This new show will centre on female friendship at its funniest and most intoxicating, until suddenly, something goes wrong...
With two single mothers, a sprinkle of marital anxiety, a dash of parental paranoia and one dead cat,
Viewers will be taken on a roller-coaster of scares and laughs as they follow the somewhat unlikely duo through life's ups and downs.
Writer and creator of the new Bristol-based series, Cooper, who won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for her leading role as Kerry Mucklowe in BBC Three's This Country, has said: " So excited to be writing this with my best friend and the funniest person I know on a subject that I think sums us up perfectly…. Toxic friendship."
The upcoming series was directed by Jonny Campbell, who was also responsible for last year's BBC hit drama-horror Dracula, as well as popular HBO sci-fi series Westworld.
Daisy's co-star and co-writer, 32-year-old Hizli, who is best known for her roles in BBC's Land Girls and ITV's detective drama Granchester, added: "Everything about creating this show has been a dream come true. Jack Thorne, Lookout Point and Boffola Pictures have been incredible.
"I can’t wait to bring this dark, funny world to life with Jonny Campbell and I’m so thrilled it has found its home at the BBC. Now I just have to put up with Daisy for a bit longer while we film it…"
Despite the title yet to be released, Cooper and Hizli's upcoming co-stars are set to be announced during the course of autumn.
Executive Producer of the upcoming series, Jack Thorne has said: "Working with Selin and Daisy on this has been a joy. The way they've managed to balance joy and truth, funny and real, it's been a brilliant education for me as a writer.
"And the less said about that dead cat the better. Can't wait to get on set and see what magic they and Jonny make."
