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Futuristic new podcast from Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis
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Five Scottish to comics release free stand-up specials
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Features
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Live comedy picks
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Videos
ITV has released the trailer for Transaction, the new comedy from stand-up Jordan Gray.
She plays a transgender egomaniac causing havoc in the nightshift of the supermarket where she's been hired to placate the LGBTQ+ community, which this store offended with an ill-conceived marketing campaign.
The six-part series, which Gray also wrote, co-stars Nick Frost, Doon Mackichan, Thomas Gray, Francesca Mills and Kayla Meikle.
Made by Big Talk Studios, it will air on ITVX and ITV2 from Tuesday June 25.
Trailer for Jordan Gray's sitcom Transaction
With Nick Frost and Doon Mackichan
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