Julia Roberts has joined the cast of the upcoming six-part comedy drama series Leonard and Hungry Paul as the narrator.
The series, produced for BBC Northern Ireland by Irish production company Subotica, also stars Alex Lawther as Leonard, Laurie Kynaston as Hungry Paul and Jamie-Lee O'Donnell as Shelley.
Leonard and Hungry Paul is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Rónán Hession and has been adapted for television by writers Richie Conroy and Mark Hodkinson. The series is directed by Andrew Chaplin and co-produced with Avalon.
Set to air later this Autumn, the feel-good series follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties; Leonard, a ghost writer of children’s encyclopaedias, and Hungry Paul, a part-time postal worker who still lives at home, who meander through leafy suburban life finding solace in their quiet routines.
The unexpected death of Leonard’s mother, the approaching wedding of Hungry Paul’s sister and a tentative new romance for Leonard, prompts both men to meet a world that is suddenly wider and full of unfamiliar possibilities.
Leonard And Hungry Paul, which is coming soon to BBC One Northern Ireland, BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, is a Subotica production for BBC Northern Ireland in association with BBC Comedy, Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland and RTÉ, and a co-production with Avalon who will distribute the show internationally.
