Jemaine Clement & Nicola Walker to star in Alice And Steve for Disney+
- Flight Of The Conchords' Jemaine Clement is returning to the UK to shoot Disney+ comedy Alice And Steve with Nicola Walker this summer
- Plot details of the comedy currently remain under wraps, with further casting now underway
- The series is being made by Clerkenwell Films, the production company behind Cheaters and Baby Reindeer
Flight Of The Conchords' Jemaine Clement is to star alongside The Split's Nicola Walker in a Disney+ comedy shooting in London this summer.
Further casting is now underway on Alice And Steve, which is being made by Clerkenwell Films, the production company behind BBC One comedy Cheaters and Richard Gadd's stalking drama Baby Reindeer on Netflix.
Plot details of Alice And Steve have yet to emerge, with the production a rare comedy outing for drama stalwart Walker, who did, though, play sheep farmer Gillian in Last Tango In Halifax.
Kiwi comic Clement broke through internationally at the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe, where he and Conchords bandmate Bret McKenzie achieved word-of-mouth success and received a Perrier Award nomination.
The musical duo's songs formed the basis of their 2005 Radio 2 series and its 2007 television adaptation for US channel HBO. But Alice And Steve will be Clement's first UK television credit since he appeared in Matt Berry's Channel 4 sitcom Year Of The Rabbit in 2019.
However, the Anglophile comic did cast Berry and fellow British comedy actors Natasia Demetriou and Kayvan Novak in What We Do In The Shadows, his and Taika Waititi's hit US television adaptation of their 2014 Kiwi horror comedy film about vampires, which airs on BBC Two in the UK.
Clement, Waititi and The Inbetweeners co-creator Iain Morris also adapted Time Bandits for television on Apple+ last year, starring Friends' Lisa Kudrow but it was cancelled after one series.
Disney+'s British comedies have not fared well on the streamer so far. Extraordinary, the superpower comedy drama starring Mairead Tyers, Siobhan McSweeney and Luke Rollason was cancelled earlier this month after two series, despite its most recent episode ending on a cliffhanger.
Renegade Nell, the highwaywoman action drama from Sally Wainwright starring Louisa Harland and Nick Mohammed aired in March but was cancelled after a single series three months later.