BBC One roles for McCasuland and Crilley

Comedy names including Anna Crilly, Chris McCausland and Neil Fitzmaurice are to appear in the new series of BBC One daytime drama Moving On.

The strand of contemporary one-off TV plays has previously featured scripts by Johnny Vegas and directing work from Jason Manford.

Stand-up McCausland appears alongside Crilly and Phoenix Nights star Fitzmaurice in an episode called Blind, which airs next Wednesday.

The storyline involves a pair of ‘empty nesters’, Terry and Jenny, whose troubled marriage is thrown into more chaos by the arrival of the cultured go-getter Daniel, played by McCausland, one of Jenny’s friends from university.

It is something of an acting break for McCausland, a blind comic who appeared as himself in TV advert about Barclay audio cash machines earlier this year. He is also one of the main characters in CBeebies series Me Too!, playing Rudi the market trader.

He tweeted today: ‘Off to Liverpool today for a screening of a drama I made for BBC1. Quite nervous about seeing myself in it. I hope I don't ruin it. I say made, I was in it, other people made it. Lucky really or the camera shots would be rubbish.’

Other comedy actors taking part in the series – stripped over all five weekdays next week at 2.15pm – include Ever Decreasing Circles star Peter Egan; Katy Carmichael who played Twist Morgan in Spaced; Lucy Liemann, who plays Ellie Pattman in Rev; and Mina Anwar from the Thin Blue Line.

Moving On was created by award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern, and is now in its sixth series.

Published: 3 Nov 2014