Jim Howick to star in BBC Two's Stag

Tuesday 21st April 2015, 8:39pm

Jim Howick

Jim Howick is to star in a new BBC Two series as a meek schoolteacher who finds himself enduring the weekend from hell.

The Horrible Histories star will take the lead role in Stag, created by The Wrong Mans director Jim Field Smith and co-written by Field Smith with George Kay.

As reported in August 2014, the comedy will be a murder mystery set amidst a deer-stalking stag weekend in the Scottish highlands.

Stag sees Howick's character joining his brother-in-law to be (Stephen Campbell Moore - Our Zoo, Ashes To Ashes, The Wrong Mans) and several of his obnoxious friends.

The BBC explain: "It quickly gets messier than anyone expected; as the hunters become the hunted, sordid secrets emerge and old friendships are tested to the limit."

Originally said to be a six-part series, Stag will now be broadcast in three hour-long installments.

Announcing the casting this evening, BBC Two controller Kim Shillinglaw also announced that stand-up comedian Katherine Ryan would become the new host of Hair, a search for Britain's best amateur hair stylist.

Additionally, BBC Two will screen a new factual series, Let Us Entertain You, focusing on Britain's status as a superpower in popular culture since the end of the Second World War.

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