Stephen Mangan to play pregnant man in new Sky show
Stephen Mangan will appear as a pregnant man in a new drama for Sky Arts.
Birthday is adapted from writer Joe Penhall's sell-out 2012 Royal Court play, in which Mangan also starred.
Sky explains: "In Birthday, Ed (Mangan) is up the duff, on an NHS maternity ward, already induced, waiting for a caesarean and the imminent birth of his daughter.
"With his high-flying executive wife at his side (Anna Maxwell-Martin) doing her best to remain sympathetic and patient, we follow Ed through the agony, the tears, the humiliation, the anxiety and the ecstasy of labour.
"In Penhall's hilarious, thoughtful and deeply moving script, viewers are invited on an exceptional journey, through existential questions, gross-out humour and high-drama into the very heart of modern relationships."
Stephen Mangan comments: "We've long known that Birthday would make a wonderful TV drama and we're delighted that Sky Arts shared our vision. Now, for the first time, viewers are able to get right into the delivery room to witness the spectacle of a heavily pregnant man in all his hormonal, bloated, mammary-swollen glory; up close and (maybe a little too) personal."
Birthday will be shown on Sky Arts later this year.
Later this year Mangan can also be seen in another series of the BBC Two transatlantic sitcom Episodes.