James Corden and Ruth Jones know what’s occurring – and it’s a tidy new comedy drama series called The Choir with a star-studded cast
What’s occurring? Gavin & Stacey co-creators James Corden and Ruth Jones are set to reunite for a new comedy drama series. The pair ready to sing from the same hymn sheet once again with an eight-episode production titled The Choir.
The show will air on Apple TV and feature guest appearances by stars including Hannah Waddingham, James McAvoy and Jim Broadbent. The storyline sees Corden and Jones play estranged siblings Ben and Lisa.
The pair haven’t seen each other for several years with Ben having been living abroad. Lisa, meanwhile, stayed at home in the small town where “nothing ever happens”.
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Ben is forced to return home though following a change in situations and he regrettably comes back to “a life he never wanted, a town he never liked and a family from which he’s estranged”.
Among the other cast members are Tom Davis, Rosie Sheehy, Susan Brown, Jason Watkins, Alexandria Riley, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Tom Edden, Gary Lamont, Emily Lloyd-Saini, Stephen Leask, Luiis Rouf, Jo Foster, Evie Jones and Farrah Abbassy.
As well as their main roles in the comedy, Jones and Corden also serve as executive producers on the series. It’s expected to premiere next year.
The production marks a return to partnership following the pair’s hugely successful Gavin & Stacey. Jones played Vanessa “Nessa” Jenkins and Neil “Smithy” Smith. Their characters were best friends of the title characters, for three series.
There were also three Christmas specials between 2007 and 2024. Joanna Page, who played the part of Stacey in the iconic sitcom, recently told the Mirror the cast remained close and even have an active WhatsApp group.
Explaining why she thought the show was such a success, she told us: “I think it was just the fact that it’s just we can all recognise our own families in it, and that it’s all about family and love, really. We can all watch it and go, “Oh, my god, that’s what I’m like,” or, “That’s my relationship with my mother-in-law.”
“I mean, the amount of people that I meet and the women say, “Oh, my god, Pam is my mother-in-law!” I meet somebody practically every day that’s like, “Oh, my god, Pam and Mick,” or, “That’s exactly what my in-laws are like.”
“And I think that, you know, it’s just basic human relationships, and it’s love, and it’s Christmas, and it’s arguments, and it’s family. And I think wherever we’re from, whatever experiences we’ve all had, it’s just basic human relationships, so you can look at that and you can go, “Well, yeah, my mother-in-law is like that.
“That is the relationship with my mother. This is the sort of things that we bicker and we argue about, you know, me and my husband.”
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