Keeley Hawes and Tom Hollander will star alongside David Mitchell and Robert Webb in the pair's new BBC2 comedy drama, Our Men. The new series, written by Rev co-creator James Wood and Rupert Walters (Spooks), will be set in the fictional central Asian republic of Tazbekistan. Mitchell will play the new British ambassador, with Webb his second in command. Hawes, who has previously guest starred in the pair's BBC2 sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look, will play the ambassador's wife. Also starring in Our Men, which is being made by The Mitchell & Webb Company and Big Talk Productions, are Yigal Naor, Susan Lynch, Amara Karan (who made a striking film debut in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited) and Shivani Ghai. Rev star Hollander will take a guest spot as minor royal turned trade envoy Prince Mark (a minor echo of his role as Edward, of Edward and Wallis Simpson fame, in Channel 4's William Boyd adaptation Any Human Heart). Any resemblance to living people is presumably entirely coincidental. Hawes appeared in That Mitchell and Webb Look as Mitchell's "dream wife". Now she really will be his wife. Well, the ambassador's...
