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Stephen Graham and Daniel Mays to Star in New Sky One Comedy

They'll star in Code 404 which is set in the in the Special Investigation Unit at the London Met.


Filming for the police comedy series starts in March. The six-part series is set in the near future and will revolve around two Detective Inspectors, DI John Major (Daniel Mays) and DI Roy Carver (Stephen Graham), who are the top crime fighting duo in the Unit.


But when an undercover sting goes horribly wrong, Major is gunned down on the job and killed.


How will the SIU function without Major? It doesn’t have to. As an ‘asset’ considered too valuable to lose, Major’s body is fast-tracked into an experimental Artificial Intelligence project to bring him back from the dead.


The only problem is, Major 2.0 may look like and sound like the original, but something has been lost in translation - quite a lot actually. His arrogant demeanour and gung-ho approach remain but his crimefighting instincts have completely deserted him.


Somehow, Major’s error-strewn hunches and Carver’s scrambling to make good allows them to just about scrape by. But while the experiment might be hailed as a success, on the front line Roy Carver is left dealing with an increasingly deluded partner.


Speaking about the new series, Sky Entertainment's Head of Comedy Jon Montague said “What a coup, Stephen Graham and Daniel Mays are the dream team - the perfect Carver and Major. Danny Peak’s scripts are endlessly hilarious and very, very arresting. Can’t wait.”


Code 404 will air in 2019 on Sky One

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