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Marc Warren, Alexander Armstrong and Keeley Hawes are Mutual Friends for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One
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Filming has begun on Mutual Friends, a new six-part comedy drama series for transmission later this year on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One.
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Martin has two best friends, Patrick and Carl, who couldn't be more different. One is an irresponsible, unreliable, feckless womaniser, and the other is dead.
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Guess which one slept with his wife?
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Martin Grantham is happily married to Jen. They have a son Dan, a nice house, the works. One day his best friend Carl throws himself under a train, setting off a disastrous sequence of events that will change Martin's life forever...
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Into this mess steps Patrick, a friend from way back. Patrick is everything Martin is not – glib, self-confident, popular and pathologically immature. He's the last person Martin needs in his life right now. Or is he?
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It's not a matter of life and death; it's much funnier than that.
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Marc Warren (Messiah: The Rapture, Hustle) is Martin; Alexander Armstrong (The Armstrong & Miller Show, Life Begins) is Patrick; and Keeley Hawes (Ashes To Ashes, Spooks) is Jen.
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The series also stars Sarah Alexander, Claire Rushbrook, Naomi Bentley, Rhashan Stone, Lee Ross and Emily Joyce.
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Mutual Friends is written by Richard Pinto and Anil Gupta (The Kumars At No 42, Goodness Gracious Me), produced by Rob Bullock (Wild At Heart, Monarch Of The Glen) and directed by Catherine Morshead (Ashes To Ashes, Shameless) and Jim O'Hanlon (House of Saddam, Wild At Heart).
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The Executive Producer is Mark Redhead (Bodies, Fairy Tales, Bloody Sunday).
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The series was commissioned for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ by Lucy Lumsden, Controller of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Comedy Commissioning, and Jane Tranter, Controller of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Fiction.
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The executive producers for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ are Sarah Brandist, Commissioning Editor, Independent Drama and Simon Wilson, Executive Editor Comedy.
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Mutual Friends is a Hat Trick Production for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One.
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