Nick Mohammed works on a new comedy with Julia Davis
Almost a decade after their last project was aborted
Nick Mohammed has revealed that he’s working on a new Channel 4 comedy with Julia Davis.
The show is likely to revive characters from a planned series set behind the scenes at a television breakfast show – commissioned in 2014 but which never came to fruition.
Now Mohammed has told The List they are reviving the double act for a project for later this year.
He said: ‘God, I love working with Julia. We’re still working out what it might be, and I probably shouldn’t say too much. But we’re just taking the relationship between our characters and seeing what we can create with it.’
The original show, Morning Has Broken featured Nighty Night star Davis playing presenter Gail Sinclair, pictured above, who was forever bickering with regular celebrity doctor, Mike, played by Mohammed. Friends star David Schwimmer – who went on to work with Mohammed on the Sky comedy Intelligence – was their American producer.
It would have been about a prominent woman in the media having a nervous breakdown on daytime television, as her marriage collapsed.
The pilot also featured Jamie Demetriou, Asim Chaudhry and Seb Cardinal, but it was never disclosed why the commissioned series - to be made by indie production house Brown Eyed Boy – never progressed. Mohammed posted the pilot online in 2018, but quickly removed it.
He was speaking to promote the live tour featuring his alter-ego, Mr Swallow, and the return of Ted Lasso, in which he plays rival manager Nate Shelley.
Published: 16 Mar 2023
