Channel 4 has announced the commission of Cut, a “timely and hilarious take on 21st century work life”.

Created and written by DC Moore, a former star of Channel 4’s new talent strand Coming Up, the six-part series will explore the shattered personal and professional lives of a group of highly dysfunctional civil servants, forced to relocate from London to Northampton following public sector cuts.

The official synopsis reads: “Cut follows the mercurial Katherine, early 30s, who is turned down for an attractive redundancy package and reluctantly bound for a new home. Here she meets a disparate yet similarly disillusioned group of workmates: Danny, late 20s is perma-wasted despite his co-workers believing him to be a strict Muslim.

“Angela, 30s, who joins Danny on his binges. Jenny, mid 20s, is far too eager for her own good, while Nathanial, mid 20s, is naïve and clueless. They’re joined by a shell-shocked Jeffries, 40s, head of Human Resources and responsible for the department’s relocation, who finds herself in the unlikely position of being on the receiving end of her own wave of cuts. Together they must readjust to their new life, their new surroundings and an inescapable new surrogate family of colleagues.”

Channel 4 describes the series as “full of black humour, razor sharp dialogue and intricately drawn relationships”, which “cuts straight to the quick of a lost generation”.

Piers Wenger, Head of Drama for Channel 4 commented: “DC Moore is a very special talent and the perfect writer to give voice to a generation of young people for whom the first step on the career path is to realise that there no longer is one.”

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