New Sky Comedy ‘Sick Note’ Starring Rupert Grint & Nick Frost Gets 2nd Series. Adds Lindsay Lohan!
Season 1 of Sky’s comedy ‘Sick Note‘ hasn’t even aired yet, but the network has already commissioned a 2nd series, AND added Mean Girls’ Lindsay Lohan to the cast!
Originally slated as for Sky Atlantic, the show will now air on Sky 1 in the Autumn in a new, post-watershed, 10pm comedy slot. Lohan is set to join Grint, Frost, and Don Johnson (yes, the Miami Vice Don Johnson!) for series 2, which is currently shooting in the UK.
‘Sick Note’ follows the story of Daniel Glass (Grint), a compulsive liar stuck in a failing relationship and dead-end insurance job, under the thumb of irrepressible boss Kenny West (Johnson). Just when things couldn’t get any worse, Daniel is wrongly diagnosed with a terminal illness by his incompetent doctor Ian Glennis (Frost). When the error comes to light, Dr Glennis convinces Daniel to hide the truth of his misdiagnosis from colleagues, friends and family in a lie that spirals wildly out of control.
The 1st series of ‘Sick Note’ will air on Sky 1 and NOW TV this autumn, as they push a “host of edgier, grown-up comedies” commissioned for the channel’s 10pm slot. Other shows in the autumn line-up include ‘Bliss‘, a comedy starring Stephen Mangan and Heather Graham from Emmy award-winning director David Cross, and ‘Bounty Hunters‘, a new action-comedy from Jack Whitehall and Freddy Syborn.
“One lie leads to the next in this unsettlingly brilliant comedy that will hook viewers in and have them on the very edge of their seats,” comments Sky’s Head of Comedy Jon Mountague. “Filming for series two is already under way and we’re delighted to confirm Lindsay Lohan will be joining Rupert and Nick in this stellar comedy cast.”
Series 2 will pick up from the end of the first, with Lindsay Lohan taking on the role of Katerina West, the daughter of Daniel’s boss.
Produced by British production company King Bert, founded by renowned producer Jo Sargent and writer-performers David Walliams and Miranda Hart, ‘Sick Note‘ is created and written by Nat Saunders and James Serafinowicz and directed by the BAFTA-winning Matt Lipsey (Little Britain, Psychoville).
‘Sick Note‘ will air on Sky 1, Autumn 2017.
