Charlotte in online comedy Staff Room

Les Dawson’s daughter Charlotte is to make her own on-screen comedy debut - in an online sitcom.

In Staff Room, the 20-year-old model plays a sexy home economics teacher complete with little black dress, skyscraper heels and plunging neckline.

A pilot episode of the sitcom is currently being shot in Salford after its creators raised £1,100 on crowdfunding website Kickstarter.And she is not the only relative of a famous comic to take part, as Steve Coogan’s niece Mary Joanna Coogan plays the school secretary.

Producers have also lined up a number of TV faces, including Zoe Lister and Johnny Escobar from Hollyoaks and Ciaran Griffiths who played Micky in Shameless. Brian Capron, who played Coronation Street serial killer Richard Hillman a decade ago, is the headteacher, while DJ Pat Sharp makes an appearance as himself.

The pilot, which is being shot at the Oasis Academy in MediaCity UK, has been written by a team led by Ryan McDermott, who won BBC Three’s Funny Hunt competition for short films in 2008.

On the Kickstarter page, McDermott wrote: ‘We want to show the commissioners and the production companies what is possible when talented, like-minded people get together with an audience who are hungry for original programming. Once we have produced the pilot episode we can then drum up interest online.’

And he told Chortle: ‘We're aiming for Comedy Central online and Netflix with the pilot, we really want to be at the front of online entertainment.’

Dawson was seen on ITV last weekend, alongside a holographic version of her father, created for a posthumous gig.

Broadcasters already several sitcoms set in schools in the pipeline, including David Walliams and Catherine Tate in Big School, Greg Davies’ project Man Down, and a second series of Jack Whitehall’s show Bad Teacher.

Here is a video Staff Room’s writers made to drum up interest

Published: 6 Jun 2013