Channel 4's Cast Offs hits the Screen

9th November 2009

Channel 4's new drama Cast Offs, which tackles disability head on, is to be transmitted at the end of November.  The script by writers from Skins, Shameless and The Thick of It is stuffed with sex and politically incorrect jokes.

Each of the six episodes is from the viewpoint of a different character in the fictional show: a blind man, a deaf woman, a paraplegic man, a woman with dwarfism, a thalidomide-affected man and a woman with cherubism.

Award winning writer Jack Thorne says the series "tries to tell the story of contemporary disabled identity from the perspective of contemporary disabled people. In most cases they are not defined by their disability so it becomes a story about a group of people surviving on an island.

Cast-offs will be broadcast on Channel 4 at 11pm on Tues 24 Nov, Wed 25 Nov, Tues 1 Dec, Wed 2 Dec, Tues 8 Dec and Wed 9 Dec