Vicious is a brand new studio sitcom comedy coming soon to ITV starring respected luminaries of British stage and screen Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Frances de la Tour.
Sir Ian and Derek play a couple who have been together for almost 50 years.
The show is written by Gary Janetti, the Emmy nominated writer/producer behind hit shows Family Guy and Will & Grace.
From the Hollywood Reporter:
For both McKellen and Jacobi, who have been friends since university and are both openly gay, Vicious is groundbreaking in another way. The show marks the first time the two acclaimed actors -- McKellen's credits include the X-Men and The Hobbit while Jacobi appeared in such films as Gladiator (2000) and The King's Speech (2010) -- have acted together. Vicious is also, aside from Jacobi's single, Emmy-winning, guest appearance on Frasier in 2001, the first time either of them has performed in a TV sitcom.
“Neither of them had ever done a multi-camera sitcom,” says Janetti “but its very theatrical. Doing a multi-camera sitcom in front of an audience is very much like live theater. And when you have such extraordinary theater actors and you are doing a comedy, my feeling is you have to put them in front of an audience".
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