Julia Davis Announces New Comedy

Dump your boyfriend, quit your job and clear your diary – we have news which demands your full attention. Julia Davis - AKA our favourite person ever, our patronus and spirit animal - is returning to Channel 4 with a new comedy about a failing breakfast TV show. Morning Has Broken will see Julia play ‘Queen of Daytime’ Gail Sinclair, as she battles falling ratings and a mutinous production team. In case you don’t know why this new six-part series is guaranteed to be supernaturally amazing, allow us to remind you why we adore Julia Davis...

Because she’s the woman behind Nighty Night

Perhaps Julia’s most iconic role is as sociopathic hairdresser Jill Tyrell, who uses her husband’s diagnosis with a terminal illness as the perfect excuse to terrorise her neighbour and attempt to steal her husband. Yes it’s dark, but it’s also properly hilarious.

And her other shows have also been all kinds of incredible

Human Remains, Lizzie and Sarah, Hunderby – if you haven’t seen any of those, you need to have a word with yourself. She was also typically show-stopping as Dawn in Gavin & Stacey.

Because she’s queen of the catchphrase

If you haven’t yelled ‘Hiya Cath!’ in a bemused passer-by’s face you haven’t lived. Thanks to Nighty Night, we’ve spent a decade telling anyone who’ll listen that we should ‘settle up now or it just gets nasty.’ Julia’s catchphrases are the gift that just keep on giving and the number one reason why our colleagues hate us.

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**Because she subverts our expectations of female comedians **

Julia is living proof that not only can women be as funny as men, but they can also be just as twisted. She’s previously spoken about how when she worked with Rob Brydon on Human Remains everyone assumed that it was him coming up with the darker elements – until they saw Nighty Night and realised that Julia does dark better than Satan himself.

Because she’s married to Julian Barratt from The Mighty Boosh

Forget Kim and Kanye. THAT is a power couple.