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Plebs star Ryan Sampson has shot a comedy pilot for ITV2.

The actor also makes his sitcom writing debut with Marvin Can't Fail, about open top bus tour guides in central London.

Filming took place in Welwyn Hatfield last month, the Hertfordshire borough where Simon Pegg and Nick Frost shot the films Hot Fuzz and The World's End.

Raised By Wolves and Moone Boy's Ian Fitzgibbon directs and the pilot is produced by Paul Schlesinger and Tom Jordan for Hat Trick Productions.

Sampson is becoming a key figure in ITV2's expanding comedy line-up.

The third series of Ancient Rome sitcom Plebs, in which he plays the slave Grumio alongside Tom Rosenthal and Joel Fry, is currently airing and is the channel's highest rated comedy.

Sampson also fronts and co-writes ITV2's hidden camera sketch show Glitchy.

-by Jay Richardson  

Published: 14 Apr 2016