Lauren Socha

Preview - The Other One

While BBC One has been busy with its Comedy Playhouse season of pilots, BBC Two has now beginning showing pilots too.

Written by sometime Sharon Horgan collaborator Holly Walsh, this sitcom pilot acts as a showcase for four brilliant, but often underserved, comic talents: Ellie White, Lauren Socha, Siobhan Finneran and Rebecca Front. The former two play sisters - one posh, one not - who only discover each other's existence after their father dies suddenly. Tension is inevitable, but it's nothing a Supertramp singalong won't soothe. Here's hoping for a full series.

Preview: The Other One

The first of BBC Two's new comedy pilots, The Other One, centres around two half-sisters who don't know about each other until their dad dies. Sophie Davies has had a sneak peek...

What are the cast of 'Misfits' doing now?

Here's a look at what some of those cast members are doing now, just over two years since the show ended...

Lauren Socha leaves the cast of Misfits

Lauren Socha will not be appearing in the fourth series of E4's Misfits. The Bafta-winning actress, who was recently sentenced to four months in prison, suspended for 12 months, for racially abusing a taxi driver, will not reprise the role of Kelly in the drama.

Misfits star Lauren Socha sentenced for racist attack

Misfits star Lauren Socha, 21, who won a Bafta for her role as Kelly Bailey in the Channel 4 TV series, assaulted taxi driver Sakander Iqbal in Derby city centre after a nine-hour pub drinking session in the early hours of October 1.

After the alternate reality of last week's episode, which imagined a Nazi takeover of Britain (worth it just to see Kelly, played by Lauren Socha, give Hitler a good kicking), the mouthy, super-powered community service workers are back on more familiar territory. Well, as familiar as this consistently inventive and witty series gets. Tonight, Kelly gets trapped in the body of a coma victim who then escapes the hospital in Kelly's body. As the "misfits" try to save the real Kelly (confused?) and snatch her away before the life support machine is switched off, a problem arises when the "victim" decides she doesn't want to go back into a coma.

A nation's youth roared as one for the return of Misfits, an everyday tale of asbo superheroes giving something back to south-east London. The show has been "refreshed" somewhat with the gobby Irish one, Nathan, now replaced by Rudy (Woody from This is England), whose special power, it turned out - more of a liability, really - was to burst into two versions of himself at inconvenient moments, one timid and sensitive and the other a pain in the arse with, as it happened, a fixation with anal sex. There was bound to be girl trouble and before you could say: "It wasn't me!" Rudy was up to his neck in the sea of shagging, coarse language, gore and hideous deaths that viewers of discernment have come to love and expect from E4's finest.

But what of the others? Well, it was new powers all round - courtesy of Seth, sinister giver of power - with gormless chavgirl Kelly (the excellent Lauren Socha) now fully skilled up as a rocket scientist and Curtis able to turn into a polite young woman. Say what you like about community service but it works wonders for your CV.

Lauren Socha: the Misfit who made it

She's most famous as the wise-cracking Kelly in Misfits, but there's a lot more to the Derby-born actor than that.