Mitchell & Webb's diplomat comedy

Keeley Hawes and Tom Hollander have joined the cast of David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s new comedy-drama Our Men.

The BBC Two series is set in the British embassy in the fictional central Asian republic of Tazbekistan, with Mitchell playing the British ambassador and Webb his No 2.

Rev star Hollander will play a minor royal turned trade envoy Prince Mark; while Hawes will play the ambassador’s wife, who has reluctantly put her own medical career on hold to become a +1 in diplomatic circles.

The series is currently being filmed, including some location scenes to be shot in Turkey, and is due to air later this year.

Our Men has been written by Rev’s co-creator James Wood with Spooks writer Rupert Walters.

Webb has previously described the show as: ‘It's sort of Yes, Prime Minister meets Spooks at a bad disco and Yes, Prime Minister is a bit sick on Spooks, but Spooks doesn't mind. It's like that.’

Yigal Naor, Susan Lynch, Amara Karan and Shivani Ghai are also in the cast, it has been announced today. While comic Michael Smiley plays a grim-faced vetting officer for the Foreign Office who grills the staff’s loyalty to Queen and country

Published: 5 Mar 2013