Syal to star in first comedy role since The Kumars
Meera Syal is to star in her first comedy role since The Kumars at No 42, playing a blind lodger in new BBC2 comedy, Beautiful People.
The series is set in 1997 and is based on the memoirs of window-dresser and writer Simon Doonan.
It has been written by Gimme Gimme Gimme’s Jonathan Harvey and will also star Peep Show’s Olivia Colman. Aidan McArdle, Layton Williams and Samuel Barnett also feature in the comedy.
Wild at Heart’s Luke Ward-Wilkinson will play young Simon, with Syal as Aunty Hayley, a blind lodger in his eccentric family’s home.
It was commissioned by BBC2 controller Roly Keating and controller of comedy commissioning, Lucy Lumsden.
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- Entry for Meera Syal in IMDB
- BBC Two
- Entry for Meera Syal in Wikipedia
- Entry for Jonathan Harvey in Wikipedia
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