Rupert Grint stars in new Sky comedy

Harry Potter star joins Nick Frost in Sick Note

Harry Potter star Rupert Grint is shooting a new comedy for Sky Atlantic with Nick Frost.

Currently filming in London, Sick Note is written by James Serafinowicz and Nat Saunders and made by King Bert Productions, the company owned by David Walliams and Miranda Hart.

Also in the cast are Daniel Rigby and Camilla Beeput, whose credits include Peep Show, Bull and Superbob.

The series is directed by Upstart Crow's Matt Lipsey, whose previous work with King Bert includes David Walliams' television adaptation of his book Billionaire Boy and the BBC's Walliams & Friend.

Nothing is currently known of Sick Note's plot, though Grint and Frost were seen carrying what appeared to be a wrapped-up human body into a car in South Richmond in footage posted online.

Grint was previously dubbed 'old sick note' by his Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe when he contracted swine flu and missed five days of filming in 2009.

Writer-producer Serafinowicz's credits include his brother's series, The Peter Serafinowicz show and the Brass Eye paedophile special, while Saunders, who is best known for his creation Misery Bear and has had a number of US pilots in recent development, also wrote on Cardinal Burns, Big Train and Smack The Pony.

Sick Note is Grint's first television comedy since Super Clyde, his 2013 US sitcom about a wannabe superhero, which co-starred Stephen Fry as his butler-cum-sidekick but was not picked up for series by CBS.

The show also marks a return to Sky Atlantic for Frost, whose 1960s-set comedy about a suicidal accountant, Mr Sloane, was cancelled by the channel in 2014 after one series.

Here's some other footage of Grint – who most recently starred in the conspiracy theory comedy movie Moonwalkers, which has not yet received a UK release – captured from location filming in Richmond, South London, last week: