Channel 4 has commissioned an "audacious" new comedy series, Big Mood, starring Derry Girls' Nicola Coughlan and It's A Sin star Lydia West.
Written and created by Camilla Whitehill, the show follows thirty-something best friends Maggie (Coughlan) and Eddie (West) as they 'navigate adulthood through wicked humour, daft anecdotes, and unsettling truths'.
With the rest of their lives looming, careers hanging in the balance and Maggie's bipolar disorder making an unwelcome return, Eddie starts to question whether their friendship can survive.
"Getting my own Channel 4 comedy still feels like some kind of long form prank, Punk'd style," said Whitehill.
"But on the off chance it isn't, I am beside myself to be making this show with such an incredible team of people, a cast that I'd be jealous of if it wasn't my cast, and for a channel that's produced some of my favourite shows of all time."
Laura Riseam, commissioning editor at C4, added: "Big Mood is an authentic portrayal of the passionate, reckless, and surreal tales of close friendship threatened by an all-consuming mental illness.
"It's outrageously daring, painfully funny and unreservedly poignant – the type of comedy that firmly belongs on Channel 4."
The six-part series is being filmed this year and comes from Dancing Ledge Productions, the company behind Disney+'s Wedding Season.
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