All-star cast announced for Channel 4's Hang Ups
- An all-star cast has been announced for Hang Ups, a sitcom coming to Channel 4 in 2018
- Based on the US series Web Therapy, the show sees Stephen Mangan playing a unconventional therapist
- Stars playing his patients will include Jessica Hynes, David Tennant, Katherine Parkinson and Celia Imrie
An all-star cast has been announced for Hang Ups, a new sitcom coming to Channel 4 in 2018.
Based on the Emmy-nominated American series Web Therapy, created by and starring Lisa Kudrow, the UK version sees Stephen Mangan playing Richard Pitt, an unconventional therapist who sees his patients via internet video calls rather than in person, all the whilst trying to keep both his own life, and his patients, from falling apart.
Filming has just finished on the largely improvised six-part series, which is otherwise written by Mangan and director Robert Delamere.
The channel explains that Hang Ups is "a farcical, dark and perceptive comedy about a man trying to help other people keep their shit together while his own inexorably falls apart. Heavily improvised, each of Richard Pitt's therapy sessions are startling, unpredictable, discomfiting and hilarious".
Today the cast who will be playing Richard's various troubled clients have been announced. Richard E. Grant (Withnail & I), Jessica Hynes (W1A), David Tennant (Doctor Who), Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd), Karl Theobald (Green Wing), Arsher Ali (Four Lions), Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Paul Ritter (Friday Night Dinner) are amongst the stars.
Also confirmed to appear are Charles Dance (Game Of Thrones), Tolu Ogunmefun (Drifters), Monica Dolan (W1A), Sarah Hadland (Miranda), Conleth Hill (Game Of Thrones), Lolly Adefope (Loaded), John Macmillan (Chewing Gum) and Harry Lloyd (Manhattan).
At the time of announcing the show, Stephen Mangan said: "People are complex and complicated and they lead messy, knotty lives. We've tried to put some of that all-too-familiar turmoil onscreen and the result, I think, is chaotic, glorious and disturbing."