Watch: trail for ITV, Monicker comedy Piglets

ITV has launched the path for brand spanking new comedy Piglets.

The six-parter, set in a fictional police coaching school is made by Monicker Footage and the staff behind Smack The Pony and Inexperienced Wing.

The present will concurrently drop as a full sequence field set on ITVX and air weekly on ITV1 primetime.

Piglets follows a newly recruited group of six very totally different would-be cops and the handful of key employees whose thankless activity it’s to knock them into some sort of form.

Heading up the forged are Sarah Parish and Mark Heap as no-nonsense Superintendent Julie Spry and some-nonsense Superintendent Bob Weekes, whose job it’s to supervise the coaching of the subsequent batch of latest recruits.

These new recruits are Steph (performed by Callie Cooke), Leggo (Sam Pote), Geeta (Sukh Kaur Ojla) Afia (Halema Hussain), Dev (Abdul Sessay) and Paul (Jamie Bisping).

Working alongside Superintendents Julie Spry and Bob Weekes are Head of Admin Melanie (Rebecca Humphries) and police trainers Mike & Daz (Ukweli Roach and Ricky Champ).

Piglets is written by Robert Harley, James Henry, Oriane Messina, Victoria Pile, Richard Preddy and Fay Rusling – the staff chargeable for Inexperienced Wing and Campus (Channel 4) – and ITV’s Comedy Writers Initiative candidate Omar Khan, additionally a latest winner of an Worldwide Emmy (the Sir Peter Ustinov Award for writers below 30).

The inventive staff additionally labored carefully with a writers room ‘annexe’ consisting of 4 new writers Abiola Ogunbiyi, Nusrath Tapadar, Farhan Solo and Alex Bertulis-Fernandes who have been additionally a product of ITV’s Comedy Writers Initiative, which goals to advertise new writers at present underrepresented in comedy.

The sequence is directed by Sam Leifer and Victoria Pile, produced by Victoria Pile, with government producers Robert Harley, Caroline Leddy, and Sam Leifer.

Piglets is produced in affiliation with, and distributed internationally by ITV Studios.

Piglets will air in July on ITV1 primetime and ITVX.

Pippa Considine

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