BBC2 has greenlit Whites, the kitchen comedy co-written by Peep Show star Matt King and featuring Alan Davies as a lacklustre celebrity chef.

Broadcast revealed that a pilot of the show was being filmed by BBC Productions earlier this year, and the project has since been commissioned for a full 6 x 30-minute series.

Matt King, who stars in Dogface as well as Peep Show as Superhans, created the series with FM writer Oliver Lansley, drawing on his own experiences of working in kitchens.

It stars Davies as Roland White, a successful “executive chef” who has grand ambitions for his restaurants but lacks the drive to see them through, as well as The Darling Buds Of May star Pam Ferris as his “dogged” agent.

The series also features Saxondale actor Darren Boyd as White’s hardworking sous chef, Bib, and Peep Show’s Isy Suttie as a waitress, dubbed as the “female Manuel”.

Jessica Cooper, the PFD agent who represents both King and Lansley, said: “The show is a comedy about relationships and people. Roland wants to be a culinary star but can’t really be bothered doing the hard work. He’d rather his best friend and sous-chef Bib Spears did the hard graft and he got to take the credit.”

The series was greenlit by former controller of comedy commissioning Lucy Lumsden and BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow and will be produced in Cardiff by Charlie Hanson and Michelle Farr. Farr developed the comedy with BBC executive producer Micheal Jacob.

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