Disability Benefits - Comedy Blaps Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
- 21st October: Rosie Jones is seen for the first time filming her new Channel 4 show Disability Benefits (Daily Mail)
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Broadcast
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Episodes
1 Pilot
Creators
Rosie Jones, Peter Fellows and Tom Thostrup
Stars
Rosie Jones, Ryan McParland, Guy Rhys, Angela Griffin, Lynn Hunter, Mark Monero and Will Brown
Writers
Director
Producers
Charlie Laurie, Clelia Mountford, Sharon Horgan, Tom Thostrup, Michael Livingstone and Lyndsey Shingler
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Having been made redundant, and with her state benefits cut to shreds, a young woman with very little left to lose begins to build an illegal drugs empire. But Rosie Dawkins isn't your average street-dealing dope peddler - she's sharp, funny, biting - and, on top of all that, she has cerebral palsy.
People have underestimated Rosie her entire life; if they're not patronising her for completing the most menial of tasks, they're pretending she's not even there. What better disguise could there be for criminal activity than being written off by the same system that exists to protect the law?
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Single camera
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Colour
Broadcast details
First broadcast
Friday 6th May 2022 at 10:45am on Comedy Blaps
Episode length
13 minutes