Holly Walsh is piloting a BBC sitcom about a hen party caught up in a zombie pandemic, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal.

The Other One creator and Motherland scribe has directed Henpocalypse, which is written by Caroline Moran (Hullraisers, Raised By Wolves) and was shot in and around Hertfordshire in March.

Cast details have yet to emerge. The comedy follows five women on a hen weekend as things take a turn for the worse, leaving them in an apocalyptic world where all the men on earth have succumbed to a mysterious new disease.

Imogen Cooper (Ghosts, Quacks) produced the non-transmission pilot for Various Artists Limited (Dead Pixels, I May Destroy You), the production company founded by Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong with former Channel 4 commissioners Phil Clarke and Roberto Troni.

Walsh, who made her directing debut with The Other One's first series, previously wrote the 2014 apocalyptic cannibal story The Crisis Plan for Crackanory on Dave, read by Katherine Parkinson and starring Cariad Lloyd, Elis James, Luisa Omielan, Tony Way, Matthew Steer and Kenneth Collard.

Bigamy sitcom The Other One, which Walsh co-writes with Pippa Brown, recently concluded its second series on BBC One, while Motherland, which Walsh co-created with Sharon Horgan, Graham Linehan and Helen Serafinowicz, won its first Bafta last month for best scripted comedy, with Walsh refusing to be drawn in interviews as to whether the recent third series of the BBC Two fixture will be its last.