Misfits

20 October 2011

TX: Starts Sunday 30th October, 10pm, E4

Bafta-nominated smash hit drama series Misfits sees Joseph Gilgun (star of This Is England '86) enrolling for community service as new guy Rudy. He lines up alongside Misfits resident delinquents Bafta award winner Lauren Socha, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Antonia Thomas and Iwan Rheon in the super-sized series which sees its run extended to eight episodes.

New kid on the block Rudy gets a rude awakening in his first few days of community service, learning  that with the keys to the infamous locker room comes a great deal of running and screaming and, in some instances, killing. But that really is the least of his worries. More pressing is just how to keep his secret superpower...well...secret. And just how super is it? As in is it one from the A- List?

The rest of the gang are also back with their all-new powers.  So just how did that trade-off with Seth the superpower dealer (Matthew McNulty), go down?  You would hope that at least one of them has a power approaching something halfway useful. You would hope... Is Simon any closer to fulfilling his destiny as Superhoodie? And when does he learn to do all that nifty parkour?

With Seth still trading powers, zombies on the loose, havoc being wreaked with events from the past and even more havoc being wreaked in the present, things haven't got any quieter for our gang...

The 8 x 60 min series is  produced by Clerkenwell Films (Afterlife, Persuasion) for transmission on E4  from late Oct 2011. And it's not just a new look cast - the production team get their very own make-over.  Matt Strevens (Skins) produces while Alex Garcia and Wayne Yip (Coming Up, Secret Diary of a Call Girl) take on co-directorial duties and kick off the series.

Writer Howard Overman (Misfits, Merlin) writes six of the eight episodes, Bafta award-winning Jon Brown (Mongrels, Fresh Meat) writes two, and executive producers for Clerkenwell Films Murray Ferguson and Petra Fried both return. 

 

Misfits Series 3, and the Series 1 – 3 boxset, will be available on DVD from 26th December 2011. For press enquiries about the release, please contact Ffion Williams – ffion@market-me.co.uk / 0207 462 0413.