Death in Paradise star Ben Miller will lead the cast of a new romantic comedy series for BBC One.

Written and produced by Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni (The Worst Week Of My Life), I Want My Wife Back follows one man’s quest to win back his wife.

Ben Miller says: “I feel incredibly lucky to be back in the BBC comedy fold, playing the incredibly unlucky hero of I Want My Wife Back. With Mainstreet at the helm and Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni on script, this truly feels like a match made in heaven.”

The six 30-minute episodes are currently filming and will also star Caroline Catz (Doc Martin) and Jan Francis (Bad Girls).

BBC commissioning editor Chris Sussman added: “It’s a very modern farce with a great cast, and I can’t wait to see it on TV. The writers do a brilliant job of putting Ben Miller down a hole and then watching him painfully trying to crawl his way out…”

The official synopsis reads: “Murray (Miller) is shocked when his wife Bex (Catz) walks out on their marriage on her 40th birthday. The series follows his attempts to find out why she has left him and how he can win her back… though it’s less a journey than a floundering stumble in the dark towards the prize of returning his life to something approaching normality.

“Friends, family and colleagues are only too ready to offer advice to Murray about what he should do, and each week sees him adopt a new strategy to achieve his goal.”

The cast also includes Stewart Wright (People Like Us), Kenneth Collard (Cuckoo), Susannah Fielding (Pramface), Peter Wight (Hot Fuzz) and Cariad Lloyd (Cardinal Burns).

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