New ITV comedy from the Green Wing team

Mark Heap and Sarah Parish are to star in Piglets, the new comedy set in a fictional police training college, ITV has announced.

The six-part show comes from the team behind Smack The Pony and Green Wing and will air this autumn.

Comedy stalwarts Parish and Heap play ‘no-nonsense Superintendent Julie Spry and some-nonsense Superintendent Bob Weekes’, whose job it is to oversee the training of the next batch of new recruits.

They are Steph (played by Callie Cooke), Leggo (Sam Pote), Geeta (Sukh Kaur Ojla) Afia (Halema Hussain), Dev (Abdul Sessay) and Paul (Jamie Bisping).

The show was inspired by the government’s policy of recruiting 20,000 new police officers in double quick-time – bringing numbers up to the same level as when the Tories first came to power in 2010  with the premise  that such a recruitment drive might have come at the cost of lowering standards.

Also starring are Rebecca Humphries as head of admin Melanie and Ukweli Roach and Ricky Champ as police trainers Mike & Daz.

Piglets is written by producer Victoria Pile with Robert Harley, James Henry, Oriane Messina, Richard Preddy and Fay Rusling, along with Omar Khan, from ITV’s Comedy Writers Initiative.  

Made by ITV Studios, the show will simultaneously drop as a full series box set on ITVX and then air weekly on ITV1 primetime.

The news comes in the week Audible revived Green Wing as an audio series.

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Published: 1 May 2024