Cast announced for new comedy 'Stag'

The BBC have announced the cast for a new three-part comedy Stag coming later this year to BBC Two.

The cast announced, joining stars Jim Howick (Peep Show, Horrible Histories) and Stephen Campbell Moore (The Wrong Mans, Our Zoo), includes JJ Feild (The Musketeers), Reece Shearsmith (Inside No 9), Rufus Jones (W1A), James Cosmo (Game of Thrones), Tim Key (Inside No 9, Alan Partridge), Amit Shah (Silent Witness, Jekyll & Hyde) and Sharon Rooney (My Mad Fat Diary). In

In the three-part series, a meek school teacher (Jim Howick) joins his future brother-in-law (Stephen Campbell Moore) and several obnoxious friends on a deer-stalking expedition in the Scottish Highlands. As the hunting party realises they themselves are the prey, sordid secrets begin to emerge and old friendships are tested to the limit in a ruthless battle for survival.

Stag is created and written by BAFTA and Golden Globe nominee Jim Field Smith (The Wrong Mans, Episodes) and George Kay (The Tunnel, Our Zoo, The Hour) and produced and directed by Jim Field Smith.

Jim Field Smith, Producer, Director and Co-writer of Stag said: “I can’t believe this fantastic roster of talent is joining us for seven weeks of hell in the Highlands, and can only assume they haven’t read the scripts properly.”