Jaime Winstone turns radio DJ for new Sky 1 comedy drama After Hours

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Jaime Winstone will play a DJ in a new Sky 1 comedy drama, After Hours.

The six half-hour episodes will see the actress play Lauren, who runs a local internet radio show from a canal boat with her friend Ollie, played by Sugartown's Rob Kendrick.

The series, which will be directed by The Royle Family co-creator Craig Cash, will screen next year and centres on 18-year-old Willow, played by The World's End actor James Tarpey, who has no job, lives with his parents and and has lost his girlfriend to someone else, but whose great passion is listening to the radio show.

Ardal O'Hanlon plays Willow's father Peter, a former milkman, while John Thomson is Peter's best mate, who sleeps on the family's sofa. Ex Casualty star Susan Cookson is Peter's wife Anna.

"I'm really excited to be working with Craig Cash and the lovely crew," says Jaime. "I loved the script."

Caren has been a journalist specializing in TV for almost two decades and is a Senior Features Writer for TV Times, TV & Satellite Week and What’s On TV magazines and she also writes for What to Watch.

Over the years, she has spent many a day in a muddy field or an on-set catering bus chatting to numerous stars on location including the likes of Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Suranne Jones, Jamie Dornan, Dame Judi Dench and Sir Derek Jacobi as well as Hollywood actors such as Glenn Close and Kiefer Sutherland.

Caren will happily sit down and watch any kind of telly (well, maybe not sci-fi!), but she particularly loves period dramas like Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey and The Crown and she’s also a big fan of juicy crime thrillers from Line of Duty to Poirot.

In her spare time, Caren enjoys going to the cinema and theatre or curling up with a good book.