Strictly’s Chris McCausland teams up with Lee Mack in first look at Christmas special Bad Tidings

CHRIS McCausland has teamed up with Lee Mack for a marque caller Christmas TV special.

The comedian, who is presently successful the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom, volition prima successful Bad Tidings with Lee, 56.

A Sky original comedy, the festive amusement volition spot 2 feuding neighbours go improbable heroes.

Chris, 47, and Lee's characters volition prevention their thoroughfare successful Stockport from notorious criminals, conscionable successful clip for Christmas.

Production connected the peculiar has ended and volition aerial connected some Sky and streaming work NOW implicit the holidays.

Also successful the formed are Rebekah Staton, Sarah Alexander, Ben Crompton, Emily Coates, Josiah Eloi, Millie Kiss, Tupele Dorgu, Sunil Patel, Susan Kyd and Donna Preston.

A teaser for the peculiar reads: "It’s the week earlier Christmas and Stockport location information expert, Neil (Lee Mack) has a occupation with his neighbour. Scott (Chris McCausland) swaps their bins, complains astir Neil’s ‘project’ car connected his thrust and has had his Christmas lights up each year, shining into Neil’s location office. Basically, he’s a git. He’s besides blind, and the remainder of the thoroughfare deliberation he’s great.

"When they effort to marque Scott the caller caput of Neighbourhood Watch, Neil tin basal it nary more. He questions Scott’s suitability for the relation (“It’s Neighbourhood Watch!”) and, successful the tit for tat enactment which ensues, Neil ends up blowing the power. For the full street. On Christmas Eve.

"Everyone, including Neil’s woman and teenage daughter, is forced to instrumentality their Christmas plans elsewhere, leaving Neil and Scott unsocial and connected guard.

"When infamous section transgression household “The Brennans” determine to rob the full thoroughfare successful 1 nighttime (“It’s similar Santa successful reverse”), the unusual mates indispensable squad up to halt them. They’ve got nary lights, nary cameras, nary alarms, but 1 of them is blind, which mightiness beryllium an advantage…"

Meanwhile, Lee Mack volition instrumentality to screens with marque caller episodes of his crippled amusement The 1% Club.

In a docket shakeup, ITV will aerial the erstwhile Saturday nighttime programme crossed an full week adjacent month.

The caller episodes volition footwear disconnected connected the 9th of December.