Co-written with Laura Solon

Daisy Haggard is to star as an ex-con in a new BBC comedy.

The Episodes and Uncle star also co-wrote Back To Life with former Perrier winner Laura Solon.

She will play  Miranda ‘Miri’ Thomas, who has just been released from a decade in prison following a  terrible crime. Now aged 36, and with no job, no friends and no choice but to move back in with her parents. 

Miri is desperate to move on, put the past behind her and get back to her life; but, in a small town where her crime is the most dramatic thing that has ever happened, will anyone let her?  

Six half-hour episodes have been commissioned from Two Brothers Pictures for BBC Three. They will be produced by Debbie Pisani and directed by Christopher Sweeney.

All the news from today’s BBC press event:

• Horrible Histories team are making a new sitcom, Ghosts
•  Inside No 9 is to make a live one-off Halloween episode
• Series 2 of Motherland has been confirmed
• Pls Like is to return
• A new batch of female-led pilots had been commissioned for BBC Three
• David Tennant and Jessica Hynes are to star in a new comedy-drama about bringing up a girl with a severe learning disability.
• Daisy Haggard is to star as an ex-con in a new comedy she co-wrote with Laura Solon.
• A one-off special will mark the 60th birthday of Lenny Henry
• The Felix Dexter Bursary for aspiring BAME comedy writers is returning

Published: 19 Jun 2018