Channel 4's big new comedy series Sirens starts tonight, and there are some recognisable faces fronting the show.

Rhys Thomas and Kayvan Novak probably have the most in the way of comedy chops. The former is possibly best known as Bellamy of Bellamy's People, the televisual conversion of Radio 4's Down The Line from the people behind The Fast Show. He also won an episode of Mastermind whilst dressed as Freddy Mercury in all his 70s pomp, which is an arbitrary fact, but noteworthy all the same. Novak is probably best known as the same channel's Fone and Facejacker. In addition to winding people up on the blower (and in person), he also won a British Comedy Award playing a dopey suicide bomber in Chris Morris' unlikely comedy hit, Four Lions. And on top of those fairly fresh talents, the trio is finished up with Richard Madden from Game of Thrones.   

 

According to the Channel 4 press release:

 

Swept along by an endless tide of bodily fluids rarely their own, our trio bicker, fight and shag their way through the darkly funny maelstrom of their lives. Behind the uniforms, the sirens, and the incredibly fast driving, they are three ordinary blokes trying to make it through yet another shift. But once they've finished saving other people's lives, will they be able to salvage their own?
 

...and that doesn't make it sound great. In fact it makes it sound a bit like Two Pints in an ambulance, but give it a chance, because these blurbs quite often do their programmes a bit of a disservice.

 

Executive Producer, Hal Vogel said:

 

Unless it's Big Top, obviously.