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Sky 1 HD Welcomes New Comedy ‘Parents’

A brand new family comedy series will be premiering on Sky 1 HD this summer.

Written by newcomers Lloyd Woolf and Joe Tucker, Parents is brought to life by a stellar cast of British talent, including Sally Phillips (Miranda, Smack the Pony), Darren Strange (Phone Shop, The Armando Iannucci Shows), Susie Blake (Mrs Brown’s Boys) and Tom Conti (Friends).

Parents centres around Jenny Pope (Phillips), whose a high-flying executive living in a large house in leafy west London. That came to an abrupt halt when she lost her job. She says this was due to “structural changes” at the firm, but it might have had something to do with an altercation with a colleague that got a little, er, "punchy". Things went from bad to worse when her house was repossessed, and now she's had to move her husband, self-styled entrepreneur Nick (Strange) and two teenage children, Sam (Christian Lees) and Becky (Jadie Rose Hobson), into her parents' - Len (Conti) and Alma (Blake) - house in Kettering. Purely on a temporary basis, of course. However, Jenny's determined to climb back up the ladder and get back to her old life, no matter what it takes.

Speaking about the role, Sally Phillips said: “It's a joy of a role to perform and that is unusual. I don't write things that are fun to perform, which is ironic because, as a performer, you'd think I would. have written stuff that you want to observe exactly but, at the same time, there's room to **** about.”

Parents will launch on Sky 1 HD in July.

http://www.entertainment-focus.com/n...parents’