I love drama, but there is nothing quite like making people laugh

ROSIE JONES DISCUSSES HER FIRST CHANNEL 4 SITCOM AND WHY THE REPRESENTATION OF DISABILITY ON TV MATTERS.

- BY YOLANTHE FAWEHINMI

old disabled lady would be shifting so much cocaine!

Firstly, I wanted to make a really fun sitcom, where you play about and just enjoy yourself.

To create a sitcom where the characters are predominantly disabled was so important to me because I get so frustrated when I watch a TV show and they have one disabled character in it.

You kind of know they have created it just to say it's a disabled character, and they will save the disabled storylines for that one character.

That isn't an accurate representation of the world.

Being disabled is not a personality type. There are disabled people everywhere in the world.

By having plenty of disabled characters, you not only accurately represent the world right now, but it also opens you up to telling more stories beyond their disability.

I really hope that even if you watch the beginning three or four minutes of Pushers, you can immediately forget that the majority of the characters are disabled. You are just watching good characters telling funny stories.