Deayton set for BBC return

Angus lands acting role

Angus Deayton is to return to the BBC a year after he was sacked from Have I Got News for You.

He is to star in a new comedy-drama, Nighty Night, written by Human Remains star Julia Davis and billed as "a West Country version of Fatal Attraction".

The role - as a doctor who becomes the victim of a neighbour's obsession - will be seen as the first step in Deayon's rehabilitation with the BBC, after losing his job over a string of tabloid revelations.

Davis will star as femme fatale Jill, the owner of a beauty salon. Her character pretends her husband is dying of a terminal illness in order to enter the lives of the doctor and his wheelchair-bound wife.

Rebecca Front will play the wife, with Kevin Eldon as Jill's husband, Terry.

Nighty Night is being made by Steve Coogan's production house Baby Cow and will be shown on BBC3 in the autumn, then on BBC2 soon after.

Published: 14 Jul 2003

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