Six-part sitcom from new writer

Sky One has announced a new home-grown sitcom about a single dad who accidentally gets recruited as a trainee spy.

Green Wing’s Darren Boyd stars in the six-part series Spy as a father who tries to win back the respect of his horribly precocious nine year old son, played by newcomer newcomer Jude Wright.

The cast also includes Robert Lindsay as his MI5 boss, Campus’s Dolly Wells as his ex-wife, Tim Goodman-Hill as her new boyfriend and Pulling’s Rebekah Staton as a fellow spy and love interest.

Spy was created and written by Simeon Goulden, pictured, who has previously written sketches for Armstrong And Miller. Made by independent production house Hat Trick, which also makes Have I Got News For You, the show will air in the autumn.

Sky’s head of comedy Lucy Lumsden said: ‘In Spy we have an exciting young cast and a brilliant new writer in Simeon Goulden. It is the first of several new British comedies aimed at a family audience to sit alongside our fantastic US line-up including Modern Family, The Middle and The Simpsons.’

Jimmy Mulville, executive producer at Hat Trick, added: ‘The writing, the characters and the situations in Spy mark it out as one of the funniest and strangest takes on the family comedy. Dysfunctional doesn’t begin to do it justice.’

Published: 10 May 2011