Only The Lonely

Aisling Bea finds laughter in sadness in her new comedy This Way Up

- Emma Bullimore, Judy Ewens

Just because you’re at your lowest ebb, it doesn’t mean you lose your sense of humour. That’s according to Aisling Bea, whose brand-new sitcom centres on a woman clawing her way back from depression.

This Way Up stars the 35-year-old comedian as troubled Aine, with Catastrophe star Sharon Horgan as her sister Shona, who’s consumed with worry about her younger sibling.

The two stars first met on the set of short-lived BBC3 comedy Dead Boss in 2012 and stayed close, working on scripts together, but never finding the right project until This Way Up, which is written by Bea and made by Horgan’s production company, Merman.

Here, Bea explains what to expect in the series…

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