Morris secrets out
Details of C4 sitcom emerge
New details have emerged of Chris Morris’s new, highly secretive comedy project.
The six-part sitcom Nathan Barley, which airs on Channel 4 in February, satirises the London media scene, particularly the style-obsessed culture in Hoxton – which he has renamed Hosegate.
Barley, played by the relative unknown Nicholas Burns, is a webmaster, guerrilla film-maker and "self-facilitating media node".
According to The Guardian, whose TV critic Charlie Brooker co-wrote the series with Brass Eye creator Morris, other characters include magazine editor Jonatton Yeah?, who added the "?" by deed poll.
There’s also "rad chick VJ Dajve Bikinus" and a commissioning editor Ivan Plapp, voted "best commissioning newcomer" in 2002.
They hang out at gastropub Regime, where your food is chosen for you by "assessing your electrolytes on a sensor at your table" and the Chimney Exchange bar, a "mecca for would-be trespassing renegades unable to discern that no one gives a flying fuck whether they're there or not".
Those appearing in the show include the actor Kevin Eldon and Boosh stars Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, who plays Barley’s colleague Dan.Published: 9 Dec 2004
