Pushers

SYNOPSIS

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?

Created and written by
Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows

Directors
Peter Fellows

Series Producer
Charlie Laurie

Executive Producers
The series is executive produced by Clelia Mountford for Merman and Tom Throstup and Michael Livingstone for 2LE Media. 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.

Starring
Rosie Jones as Emily, Ryan McParland as Ewen, Jon Furlong as Sean, Lynn Hunter as Pat, Rhiannon Clements as Jo, Reuben Reuter as Harry, Libby Mai as Hope, Trevor Dwyer-Lynch as Minibus Masir and Clive Russell as Emily’s dad Clive.

Broadcaster
Channel 4

Transmission Date
Series 1 Thursday 19th June 2025 10pm

Pushers on IMDB

Awards Won:

The original Disability Benefits Blap won the C21 International Drama award 2023 for Best Newform Drama Series.

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