Alongside her real-life sister

Stand-up Kat Sadler and her sister Lizzie Davidson are to play fictional siblings in a new BBC comedy pilot.

Sadler also wrote the script for Such Brave Girls, about a single mother, Deb, and her two daughters trying to piece their lives back together after their narcissistic father and husband finally leaves them for good.

She said: ‘Everything we joke about in the show is from a place of lived experience.

‘I wish I could say this is a heart-warming show about overcoming trauma, but that would be a lie. It’s about three toxic, damaged egomaniacs manipulating the world and each other for their own personal gain, vengeance and glory.  Yes, just like in Little Women.’

Davidson added: ‘Cheers to BBC for letting two queers with mental health issues have a TV show. Or wherever BBC Three is now, I still don’t quite understand. And if any of this show makes you uncomfortable, at least you didn’t have to live it.’

The cast of the 22-minute pilot, to be released under the BBC Three Comedy Slice banner this autumn – also includes Paul Bazely  – who played Troy in Benidorm – and   Amy Trigg, who has worked with the RSC.

Producer Simon Mayhew-Archer said: ‘This is a comedy packed with extremely funny, complicated characters whom you will sometimes want to hug and other times run away from.

‘The cast is amazing, as is the writing - brutally authentic and charmingly funny. I love these people and I’m also quite scared of them.’

Sadler’s writing credits include Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Mock The Week and Sue Perkins’ Nature Table. In 2019 she was awarded the BBC comedy writing bursary, where she became the in-house comedy writer for BBC Studios.

Made by: Camden Productions
Directed by: Marco Alessi
Produced by: Simon Mayhew-Archer
Executive producer: Stephen McCrum
Commissioning editor for BBC: is Gregor Sharp.

Published: 9 Sep 2021