Terry Mynott and Robert Webb to star in Radio 2 pilot
Robert Webb and Terry Mynott will star in The King's Men, a new Radio 2 sitcom pilot about two policemen.
The show, which is written by Terry Mynott - perhaps best known as the star of Channel 4 sitcom The Mimic - and Father Ted co-creator Arthur Mathews, is set before World War I.
Mynott and Webb will play Ernest Ridley and Arthur Smyth. After discovering what they believed to be a German plot to invade The Isle of Sheppey (their main piece of evidence ultimately turned out to be a child's treasure map), the duo are asked to join the new Secret Service in London: an organisation dedicated to uncovering foreign spies and plots in the uncertain and paranoid years before the Great War.
Producers Hat Trick Productions explain: "Friends since childhood, the two men served together in the British Army in India. Although they bicker a lot of the time like an old married couple, they are inseparable they live together in the same boarding house, and share the same love of King and Country. If only they were a little better at their jobs..."
The cast list for the pilot also features Alex Macqueen as Lord Lane and actors Nick Mohammed (The Job Lot), Ellie White (House Of Fools), Katy Wix (Not Going Out) and Ophelia Lovibond (W1A).
The King's Men will be one of five pilots broadcast as a new season of Radio 2's Comedy Showcase from 16th November, under an initiative that will see each episode available online a week before broadcast, from 9th November.
The King's Men will be recorded at the RADA Studios in London on Monday 12th October 2015. To apply to be in the audience see our free tickets page