‘Starstruck’s Alice Snedden Helming Channel 4 Comedy About Love & The Cost-Of-Living Crisis

EXCLUSIVE: Starstruck co-writer Alice Snedden is directing a Channel 4 comedy about love in the cost-of-living crisis.

Snedden is helming a one-off for Channel’s 4 Blap strand titled Break Clause, which is written and created by Jess Bray (The Outlaws) and will star BAFTA-nominee Samuel Bottomley (Somewhere Boy, How to Have Sex), Lara Ricote (Live at the Apollo), Jamali Maddix (Never Mind the Buzzcocks), Lauryn Ajufo (Everything Now) and Leo Reich (Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!).

In Break Clause, Lil and Ben get together but swiftly break up on the first night of moving in together, quickly finding themselves in a legally binding contract they can only end after a fixed term period of six months. The show was described as “the true cost of loving in a cost-of-living crisis” by Channel 4.

Break Clause has shades of Starstruck, the BBC-HBO comedy that Snedden co-wrote with its creator Rose Matafeo. Snedden’s other projects include Double Parked and Alice Snedden’s Bad News, while she was reported to have recently made a BBC pilot titled Late in Life. Break Clause creator Bray, meanwhile, is a writer on Stephen Merchant’s BBC-Amazon dramedy The Outlaws.

BBC Studios Comedt Productions is producing the Blap, a comedy strand that has birthed the likes of We Are Lady Parts and Stath Lets Flats. Break Clause will be available to stream on YouTube and Channel 4 in due course.

Executive producers on Break Clause are Bray, Mark Freeland and Josh Cole for BBC Studios Comedy Productions. Commissioning Editor for Channel 4 is Laura Riseam and Molly Seymour is producer.