Sharon Horgan's new Channel 4 sitcom is a Catastrophe

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Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney are to star together in new dating sitcom Catastrophe.

The Pulling star and the Twitter comedian co-wrote the show about an Irish woman and an American man 'who make a bl**dy mess as they struggle to fall in love in London', Broadcast magazine reported.

The series was commissioned by Channel 4 after a successful pilot from Avalon Television last year.

It will screen at the end of the year.

Sharon and Rob previously appeared together in BBC Three's Feed My Funny .

 

– Press Association

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.