X
Recipient's email
Your name
Your email
Message (optional)

E-mail to a friend

Welsh and Cavanagh pen darts comedy for ITV4

Published Wednesday 20 August 2008 at 16:05 by Matthew Hemley

Trainspotting writer Irvine Welsh is to direct a one-off comedy drama for ITV4.

Called Good Arrows, the show has been penned by Welsh and Dean Cavanagh and is being made through the pair’s production company, Dust Films.

Welsh and Cavanagh previously collaborated together on Channel 4’s drama Wedding Belles.

Good Arrows, which is ITV4’s first comedy commission, will star Shameless’ Jonathan Owen, Ella Smith - currently appearing in Fat Pig in the West End - and Brian Hibbard.

Welsh said: “Good Arrows is set in south Wales, in the world of professional darts. It is a satire on the most vacuous and self-defeating foible of our times - the cult of minor celebrity. We have a tight, funny and edgy script and have been fortunate to recruit brilliant performers and a highly talented crew, who will execute it with aplomb.”

ITV4 controller Dave Fewings added that the show would have “great appeal for the channel’s male audience”.Ê

“Personally, I am also delighted that writers with the pedigree of Irvine and Dean see ITV4 as the perfect home for the show,” he said.

E-mail to a friend

SEARCH THE STAGE

Latest news [RSS]

Just William back on the BBC
Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye is to adapt Richmal Crompton’s Just William books for the BBC, marking the third…
Move north rejected by majority of BBC middle managers
More than 50% of staff in the five BBC departments relocating to Salford’s MediaCityUK, the new base for BBC North,…
Del Boy back in Only Fools and Horses prequel
Derek Trotter, the character made famous by David Jason in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses, is to return to…
Cardiff’s Sherman Cymru theatre wins Arts and Business award
Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold and Cardiff’s Sherman Cymru theatre have been recognised at this year’s Arts and Business…
Sales of Theatre Tokens up 14%
Sales figures for Theatre Tokens in the first four months of this year are 14% higher than they were in 2008.
Acosta to perform with Ballet Nacional de Cuba at Coliseum
Carlos Acosta is to perform with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba for the first time in the UK next year, as part of the…

Content is copyright © 2009 The Stage Newspaper Limited unless otherwise stated.

All RSS feeds are published for personal, non-commercial use. (What’s RSS?)