Meera Syal is teaming up with Peep Show star Olivia Colman in Syal's first comedy role since The Kumars At No 42.
Beautiful People goes into production for transmission later this year on BBC2.
The show is set in 1997 and is centred around an eccentric family.
Colman plays a mother called Debbie.
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