Full series starts this year

Roisin Conaty’s sitcom GameFace is finally coming to E4 - more than three years after it was piloted as a Comedy Blap.

The broadcaster has now announced that the six half-hour episode, which Conaty wrote and stars in, will air as part of its summer/autumn schedule.

Father Ted star Pauline McLynn is also in the cast the cast, playing the mother of Conaty's character Marcella, an aspiring actress, alongside Francis Magee, who played Yoren in Game of Thrones, as her furious dad.

 Dylan Edwards, whose credits include Misfits and Pramface, is her wayward brother Billy;  Dustin Demri Burns, of the Cardinal Burns double act, is her is ex-boyfriend Simon and Karl Theobald, from Green Wing and Plebs, plays her therapist.

The series follows Marcella as she tries to make a success of her life and career, and navigate the changing landscape of her 30’s, whilst still recovering from the break-up of a long-term relationship.

The pilot episode of GameFace aired in April 2014 and the full series was commissioned the following year, but did not start filming until early this year.

Caroline Ginty – who was once in an Edinburgh double-act with Conaty – is the only other cast member who was also in the pilot, playing Marcella's friend. Damien Molony from Being Human and Nina Toussaint-White from Uncle also star.

The series is made by Peep Show producers Objective – with Ben Farrell as executive producer, Charlotte Lewis as producer and weekly Wipe's Andrew Chaplin as director. It is due to air later this year.

The pilot is available to view here.

Conaty is also returning for the fourth series of Greg Davies’s sitcom Man Down, which the broadcaster has announced will start in late summer.

Stephanie Cole, Gwyneth Powell and Mike Wozniak are also returning to the cast.

Published: 4 Jul 2017