PUSHERS - Full series on C4 now 6 x 30 mins.

Created by Tom Thostrup, Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows. Written by Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows.

PUSHERS

Pushers is a new sitcom for Channel 4, full season available to watch on C4. 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 – 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 even there. When an old friend called Ewen (co-lead Ryan McParland) comes back into Emily’s life he opens a door to the world of drug dealing. What better disguise could there be for criminal activity than being written off by the same system that exists to protect the law?

Joining the cast of Pushers alongside Rosie and Ryan McParland (Say Nothing, Halo) are Jon Furlong (The Last Kingdom, Adolescence) as Sean, Lynn Hunter (The Personal History of David Copperfield, The Tuckers) as Pat, Rhiannon Clements(Vera, Power of Parker as Jo, Ruben 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, One Piece) as Emily’s dad Clive.

Pushers (6x30’) was commissioned for Channel 4 by Charlie Perkins, Head of Comedy and Laura Riseam, Comedy Commissioning Editor and co-produced by 2LE Media and Merman Executive producers are Michael Livingstone and Tom Thostrup for 2LE and Clelia Mountford and Faye Dorn for Merman Television. The series is directed by Peter Fellows. The series producer is Charlie Laurie. 

The series commission follows the award-winning Comedy Blap named Disability Benefits, which was created by Tom Thostrup, Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows and which won ‘Best Newform Drama Series’ at the C21 International Drama awards in 2022.