Peep Show's Robert Webb and Isy Suttie reunite for kids' sitcom

High Hoops revolves around a high school basketball player

Peep Show alumni Robert Webb and Isy Suttie are reuniting for a new CBBC sitcom.

High Hoops revolves around a ‘charmingly reckless’ teenage basketball player and her chaotic pursuit of success, fame, love and the perfect hook shot after she moves to a new high school with a terrible team.

Suttie plays her moher Brid, while Webb is Mr Holt, the headmaster of Midvale School. Child actor Darci Hull makes her screen debut in the lead role of Aoife O’Neill.

It is being shot in Halifax, West Yorkshire, with production company CanCan Productions describing it as ‘a show about determination, finding your tribe, and being true to yourself’.

The ten-part series, aimed at viewers aged seven and up, has been written and created by Sinead Fagan a lifelong basketball player and coach.

High Hopes was one of three CBBC commissions announced today, also including Primrose Railway Children, an adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's novel that was itself inspired by E. Nesbit's classic The Railway Children, and a sixth and seventh series of Enid Blyton adaptation Malory Towers, made by David Walliams's King Bert Productions.

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Published: 21 Jun 2024