Yahoo News Martin Clunes' new sitcom was too funny to turn down
Martin Clunes is gearing up to star in an all-new BBC comedy series in a role the actor claims was too funny to turn down.
In Warren, Clunes will star as Warren Thompson, a pedantic driving instructor who thinks the world is against him and will find himself uprooted when he's forced to move to Preston after his partner Anne's father falls ill.
After making the move up to Lancashire from the south, Warren finds himself living in an area he doesn't like, with a job he's not emotionally cut out for and now looking after two teenage stepsons he never wanted.
"I had kind of told myself that I didn't want to do another sitcom, but because this came from Hat Trick I thought it was worth a read and the script is just so funny that I didn't want anyone else to do it," Martin Clunes said of his casting.
According to the show's synopsis, Warren is not growing old gracefully and has a way of speaking his mind that inevitably leads to conflict and chaos for himself and those around him, meaning there are no happy endings for Warren as he grapples against the problems and misunderstandings of his own making.
The comedy comes from Hat Trick Productions, the company behind the likes of Episodes, Outnumbered and recent hit Derry Girls, and is written by Paul McKenna and Jimmy Donny Cosgrove.
"Great scripts attract great actors and this was the case with Warren," Hat Trick Productions' managing director Jimmy Mulville added. "Martin plays the central role to perfection and is supported by a fantastic cast. We can't wait to make it."
Clunes is of course best known for his starring role in BBC's Men Behaving Badly between 1992 and 1998, and more recently has made a name for himself playing a grumpy GP in ITV's Doc Martin, too.
Later this year, Clunes will start work on a new drama role that will focus on the hunt for serial killer Levi Bellfield. He will play DCI Colin Sutton, the lead detective on the investigation into the 2004 murder of Amelie Delagrange, which was eventually linked to the murders of Marsha McDonnell and the abduction and murder of Milly Dowler.
Warren will air on BBC One, with full casting and transmission details coming soon.
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