...including Stephen Fry, Greg Davies and Rob Brydon

Stephen Fry, Greg Davies and Sir Derek Jacobi are to guest star in the new series of This Is Jinsy, Sky has announced.

The surreal show, which was nominated for a British Comedy Award in 2011, returns to Sky Atlantic in January. And as in the first series, the eight episodes feature a raft of familiar comedy faces.

Fry appears in the first episode as Dr Bevelspepp, who uses his encyclopaedic knowledge of the island of Jinsy to help save the inhabitants from an invasion of rampaging hair.

Also guest starring are:

• Katy Brand as Madame Astralina, a flamboyant psychic who obtains her readings from a pen of rats

• Ben Miller as the Chief Accountant of Jinsy, and his daughter Berpetta, a drunk, hefty, buck-toothed accountant

• Greg Davies as Jennitta Bishard, a sinister figure who delivers punishments to residents across the island from the safety of her TV studio

• Rob Brydon as Jinsy singing sensation, Rex Camalbeeter, who likes dressing up as a female badger and singing about it

• KT Tunstall as Meb Twaheely, the singer of Jinsy's third most famous folk band, Twaheely Transfix

• Dame Eileen Atkins as Miss Penny, a schoolmistress with a massive dome of pinned hair who teaches Extreme Etiquette for Girls

• Sir Derek Jacobi as Robunce Barnatty, the eldest resident of Jinsy island, at 98 cycles old

• Stephen Mangan as Mr Lovely, the owner of Mr Lovely’s Lovely Jumper Shop with a penchant for all-in-one knitted bodysuits

• Phil Davis as ex-Arbiter Roley Jenkins who lives in a large Manor House

• Olivia Colman as Roley’s wife Joan.

This is Jinsy is created and written by Chris Bran and Justin Chubb, who star alongside regulars Alice Lowe, Janine Duvitskia and Geoff McGivern.

Published: 14 Nov 2013