EXCLUSIVE: Gavin & Stacey Co-creators James Corden and Ruth Jones have won their next big series and we can tell you that the new Apple TV + program will be called The choir.
We understand that Corden and Jones play the slopes and production The choir And will play as brother and sister Ben and Lisa, who have not been seen for several years. Ben lives abroad, while Lisa continued in their small English town where nothing happens. But when events take a desolate turn, Ben is forced to return to a life he never wanted, a city he never loved and a family from which he is distant.
We reveal the details of the plot for the first time. The shooting on the comedy drama in eight games will start next year, we are told. We do not know at this stage which will produce the show, although the own Fulwell entertainment of Corden, which made the Gavin & Stacey Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow’s Baby Cow will probably be in the mixture.
A Jones and Corden Apple agreement was first launched by The sun Several months ago and was evaluated at around 8 million pounds sterling ($ 10.8 million), although Apple does not comment on the figure and the initiates moved away from the “several million pound contracts”. Thoughts at that time turned to what Corden and Jones would then do after the final Gavin & Stacey The BBC series, which was the most watched television show in 2024 in the United Kingdom, when it ended on Christmas Day to a possible audience of more than 20 million people. The SitCom with direct elimination is one of the most appreciated in the United Kingdom in the past two decades and has also played Rob Brydon, Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb.
Corden made the final once he returned to the United Kingdom after putting an end to his long accommodation race The late late show in the United States. Jones, on the other hand, should play in the BBC and the Britbox The other sister Bennet And the next adaptation of Netflix Harlan Coben, Flee.
The show is the last big bet of the highly classified European boss of Apple TV +, Jay Hunt, who succeeded with tastes Slow horses And Bad sisters. On the side of the sitcom, the streamer broadcast five seasons of Rafe Spall–Starrer Trying. This show will soon have a wider audience in the UK after the BBC resumed the first three seasons.
Jones is represented by Curtis Brown. Corden is represented by United Agents, CAA and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.
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