Hitmen
- TV sitcom
- Sky Comedy / Sky One
- 2020 - 2021
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Sitcom starring Mel & Sue as professional assassins. Also features Sue Perkins, Mel Giedroyc, Katherine Parkinson, Asim Chaudhry and Tonya Cornelisse
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Series 2: Hitmen Reloaded, Episode 3
early. But they realise that they have killed Jackson way too soon...
Further details
Fran and Jamie have just taken out Jackson Reynard - a movie producer come drug lord - and are thrilled they've finished the hit early. Jamie is particularly thankful as she has promised Kat she will be home early to take delivery of an expensive sofa. But they realise that they have killed Jackson way too soon - before he'd done a lucrative deal. Now they have a bag full of drugs instead of the cash they were supposed to retrieve, and a bunch of Moldovan gangsters are on their way to the hotel to do the exchange. Luckily the Moldavans have never met Jackson, and although they are unlikely to be fooled by a couple of middle-aged women, Jamie has the idea to hire an actor who can impersonate Jackson and do the deal.
Cue Kieran, an out-of-work actor; desperate for the work, but also very method. They tell him he's part of an immersive stag do experience, and from the off Kieran is keen to add his own thespian flourishes to role, totally unaware of the danger he is in when he and Fran (acting as his bodyguard) finally meet the gangsters. Meanwhile, Jamie has been tasked with disposing of Jackson's body, only to discover that he's not as dead as they thought, and she juggles tracking the sofa delivery on her phone with chasing the movie producer and trying to finish him off. Back with the gangsters, and Kieran is incapable of closing the deal, instead regaling his new friends with fictional gossip from the movie world, assuming he is just adding value to this stag do experience. But when Fran learns that Jackson's dying words to Jamie revealed the drugs are fake, she urgently tries to extricate herself and the ever oblivious Kieran from the gangsters before they are exposed.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 6th October 2021
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Sky Comedy
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Sue Perkins | Fran |
Mel Giedroyc | Jamie |
Mathew Baynton | Kieran Roberts |
Jessica Hulme | Sophie |
Lucien MacDougall | Jackson Reynard |
Tomi May | Rusnac |
Olivia Sinclair | Croupier |
Ashley Thomas | Dima |
Joe Parham | Writer |
Joe Markham | Writer |
Mel Giedroyc | Script Consultant |
Sue Perkins | Script Consultant |
Oriane Messina | Writer |
Fay Rusling | Writer |
David Sant | Director |
Ali Bryer Carron | Producer |
Siobhan Rhodes (as Siobhan Bachman) | Executive Producer |
Arnold Widdowson | Executive Producer |
Tilusha Ghelani | Executive Producer |
Mel Giedroyc | Associate Producer |
Joe Parham | Associate Producer |
Sue Perkins | Associate Producer |
Joe Markham | Associate Producer |
Anne Patterson | Co-producer |
Nick Ames | Editor |
Jim Holloway | Production Designer |
Tracey Gillham | Casting Director |
Nadine Hindi | Costume Designer |
Trevelyan Oliver | Director of Photography |
Nicola Coleman | Make-up Designer |
Micaela Ralph | Graphics |
Andy Stenning | 1st Assistant Director |