New Comedy Pushers starts Thursday 19th June at 10pm.

Welcome to the inner rectum. Sorry, sanctum. Having had her state benefits cut, Emily begins to build an illegal drugs empire. New Comedy Pushers starts Thursday 19th June at 10pm.

Written by Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows, the trailer has been released for Pushers! 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.

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.

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.