Written by Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows, Channel 4 have released a first look and more details on Pushers…
The series was previously announced as Disability Benefits and will air on Channel 4 next month. Produced by Merman Television and 2LE Media, Pushers is based on an award-winning Comedy Blap and stars Rosie Jones in her first ever sitcom.
Having had her state benefits cut to shreds after being made redundant, a young woman with very little left to lose begins to build an illegal drugs empire. But Emily (Rosie Jones) isn’t your average street-dealing dope peddler – she’s sharp, funny, biting, highly educated – and on top of all that, she has cerebral palsy.
People have underestimated Emily her entire life. If they’re not patronising her for completing the most menial of tasks, they’re pretending she’s not there. What better disguise could there be for criminal activity than to be entirely written off by the same broken system which exists to protect the law?
Joining the cast of Pushers alongside Rosie are Ryan McParland as Ewen, Jon Furlong as Sean, Lynn Hunter as Pat, Rhiannon Clements as Jo and Ruben Reuter as Harry. Also, Libby Mai as Hope, Trevor Dwyer-Lynch as Minibus Masir and Clive Russell as Emily’s dad Clive.
Pushers will air across six episodes. The series commission follows the award-winning Comedy Blap feature which was created by Rosie Jones, Peter Fellows and Tom Thostrup and which won ‘Best Newform Drama Series’ at the C21 International Drama awards in 2022.
“Channel 4’s Comedy Blaps have historically been a development breeding ground for several series commissions, including We Are Lady Parts, Stath Lets Flats, Home and Dead Pixels (E4).” – Channel 4
