Desperado's New BBC Comedy Drama in Production @ Memorable TV

WARREN CLARK GETS DESPERATE!

Desperado's is a major new comedy drama series from the pen of WIlliam Ivory currently being made by Company PIctures for BBC One. Warren Clarke, Jenny Agutter, Anthony Head and Dean Lennox Kelly are heading the cast of the show which follows a pair of aging crims who having spent all their loot return home from the Costa Del Crime only to find themselves out of touch.

Maurice Riley (Anthony Head) and Syd Woolsey (Warren Clarke) are old friends who return from the good life on the Costa del Crime, where they have spent their ill-gotten gains, to a quiet Devon fishing village, where they plan to eke out their retirement fishing and availing themselves of the NHS.

However, the quiet life is not for them and, with money running short, they quickly find themselves drawn back into a life of crime, only to find that crime has moved on and they've got new things to learn.

Ivory said: "It's a dream of a cast. And what's especially brilliant is the breadth of the talent on board. Desperados is an ensemble piece which means every character relies on the one next to them to give full value in terms of what the script is trying to achieve. And that means, in an ideal world, you're looking to fill every role with a heavy hitter – but in truth you seldom achieve that. This time, I think we have... "

Produced by Company Pictures (Elizabeth I, Shot Through The Heart, Shameless) for BBC One, the director is Will Sinclair, producer is Richard Burrell (Robin Hood, Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story), and executive producers are George Faber and Charlie Pattinson (Company Pictures).

Desperados will be filmed in Ireland with the support of Northern Ireland Screen.

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