Rovers Press Pack

Please click here for the Rovers Press Pack. Rovers starts on Tuesday 24th May at 10pm on Sky 1.

For further information please contact alexander.wood@sky.uk 

About Rovers

In front of the camera for the first time since The Royle Family special in 2012, Craig Cash directs, produces and stars in a brand-new original Sky 1 comedy that drops in on the lives of the

indomitable fans of Redbridge Rovers – a struggling lower league football team.

Craig, playing the loveable die-hard Redbridge Rovers fan Pete Mott, is reunited with his The Royle Family co-star Sue Johnston, who plays Doreen – the slightly dotty club bar manager and de facto matriarch of the Redbridge community.

The long-time screen partners are joined by a community of colourful characters, including Steve Speirs (Stella, Extras) as Tel, Pete’s best mate since childhood, and Seb Cardinal (Psychobitches, Cardinal Burns) as Tel’s trendy new love interest Mel. Diane Morgan (Weekly Wipe’s Philomena Cunk) also joins the stellar cast as the club’s resident vamp, Mandy.

The series is written by comedians Joe Wilkinson (Him & Her, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown) and David Earl (Derek), who also make appearances in the series as Pete’s bearded nemeses, wind-up merchants Bruce and Lee.

The club has seen better days, but its fans are a passionate and tenacious force. Together they make for a hilariously dysfunctional family, who are bound together by a (some might argue) misjudged love of the perennial underdogs that are the Rovers. After all, it’s never just about the football; it’s about who’s singing in the stands next to you.