Fun On The Frontline

Samson Kayo and Jane Horrocks are chalk-andcheese paramedics in new ambulance comedy Bloods

- Steven Perkins, Alison Slade

NEW COMEDY

Bloods Wednesday, Sky One HD, 10pm

With credits including Amazon Prime Video’s Truth Seekers with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, as well as a BAFTA nomination for BBC3 sketch show Famalam, Samson Kayo has carved out a successful career in comedy. But had he stuck with his original plan, things could have turned out very differently…

‘I was going to be a paramedic before I started acting,’ reveals Kayo. ‘I applied to be an ambulance support driver – you could do that back then; now you have to train! But then acting started to move more to the forefront.’

However, when a production company approached Kayo about ideas for new comedy shows, he found himself thinking about the alternative life he might have led as a paramedic – and from that, Sky One comedy Bloods was born.