FIRST LOOK IMAGES RELEASED FOR CHANNEL 4 COMEDY ‘PUSHERS’ STARRING ROSIE JONES

Written by Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows, first look images have been released for Pushers (previously announced as Disability Benefits) which is coming to Channel 4 next month. Produced by Merman Television and 2LE Media, Pushers is based on an award-winning Comedy Blap and stars Rosie Jones in her first ever sitcom.

Rosie Jones and Ryan McParland in Pushers.

Having had her state benefits cut to shreds after being made redundant, a young woman with very little left to lose begins to build an illegal drugs empire. But Emily (Rosie Jones) isn’t your average street-dealing dope peddler – she’s sharp, funny, biting, highly educated – and on top of all that, she has cerebral palsy. People have underestimated Emily her entire life. If they’re not patronising her for completing the most menial of tasks, they’re pretending she’s not there. What better disguise could there be for criminal activity than to be entirely written off by the same broken system which exists to protect the law?

Joining the cast of Pushers alongside Rosie are Ryan McParland (Halo, Cold Courage) as Ewen, Jon Furlong (The Last Kingdom, All Creatures Great and Small) as Sean, Lynn Hunter (The Tuckers, Doctors) as Pat, Rhiannon Clements (Vera, Daddy Issues) as Jo, Reuben Reuter (The Dumping Ground, The Syndicate) as Harry, Libby Mai (We Are Lady Parts, The Chelsea Detective) as Hope, Trevor Dwyer-Lynch (Coronation Street, The Moor) as Minibus Masir and Clive Russell (Game of Thrones, Outlander) as Emily’s dad Clive.

 Rosie Jones in Pushers.

Pushers (6×30’) was commissioned for Channel 4 by Charlie Perkins, Head of Comedy and Laura Riseam, Comedy Commissioning Editor and co-produced by Merman Television and 2LE Media. Executive producers are Clelia Mountford for Merman Television and Michael Livingstone and Tom Thostrup for 2LE. The series producer is Charlie Laurie from Merman.

Rosie Jones and Rhiannon Clements.

The series commission follows the award-winning Comedy Blap named Disability Benefits, which was created by Rosie Jones, Peter Fellows and Tom Thostrup and which won ‘Best Newform Drama Series’ at the C21 International Drama awards in 2022. Channel 4’s Comedy Blaps have historically been a development breeding ground for several series commissions, including We Are Lady Parts, which has been commissioned for a second series on Channel 4, Stath Lets Flats, Home and Dead Pixels (E4).

Clive Russell and Rosie Jones in Pushers.