{"id":872873,"date":"2026-10-06T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872873\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:44:09","slug":"james-corden-ruth-jones-apple-show-the-choir-reveals-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872873\/","title":{"rendered":"James Corden &#038; Ruth Jones&#8217; Apple Show &#8216;The Choir&#8217; Reveals Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Hannah Waddingham, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-mcavoy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-mcavoy\" data-tag=\"james-mcavoy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James McAvoy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jim-broadbent\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jim-broadbent\" data-tag=\"jim-broadbent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Broadbent<\/a> will guest star in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-choir\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-choir\" data-tag=\"the-choir\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Choir<\/a>, the highly-anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/apple-tv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apple-tv\" data-tag=\"apple-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a> series from Gavin &amp; Stacey creators <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-corden\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-corden\" data-tag=\"james-corden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Corden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ruth-jones\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ruth-jones\" data-tag=\"ruth-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth Jones<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe trio will be joined by an ensemble featuring Tom Davis, Rosie Sheehy, Susan Brown, Jason Watkins, David Harewood, Alexandria Riley, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Tom Edden, Gary Lamont, Emily Lloyd-Saini, Stephen Leask, Luiis Rouf, Jo Foster, Evie Jones and Farrah Abbassy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe can also reveal that the show will be produced by I May Destroy You maker <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/various-artists\/\" id=\"auto-tag_various-artists\" data-tag=\"various-artists\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Various Artists<\/a> Limited with TidyTwo. This is a departure from Gavin &amp; Stacey, which was made by Steve Coogan\u2019s Baby Cow and Corden\u2019s Fulwell Entertainment, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Choir follows brother and sister, Ben (Corden) and Lisa (Jones), who haven\u2019t seen each other for several years. Ben has been living abroad, while Lisa has carried on in their small English town where nothing ever happens. But when events take a sorry turn, Ben is forced to return to a life he never wanted, a town he never liked and a family from which he\u2019s estranged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Choir, which has rolled cameras and will air next year, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/james-corden-ruth-jones-apple-show-the-choir-plot-details-1236511748\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is the latest from<\/a> the duo behind Gavin &amp; Stacey, the iconic British sitcom which concluded two years ago as the UK\u2019s most-watched show of 2024. The show has attracted a top caliber of guest star. Waddingham landed global recognition for her role in a different Apple TV series, Ted Lasso, which just launched Season 4. McAvoy is a BAFTA winner and Broadbent has an Oscar to his name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Choir is produced for Apple TV by Various Artists Limited and TidyTwo, with Phil Clarke, Jack Bayles, Jones and Corden serving as executive producers, and BAFTA Award nominees Jennifer Sheridan and Jim Archer set to direct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Waddingham, James McAvoy and Jim Broadbent will guest star in The Choir, the highly-anticipated Apple TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5896,88,367785,15047,89772,304717,171925,277620,92,91433],"class_list":["post-872873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-apple-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-hannah-waddingam","tag-james-corden","tag-james-mcavoy","tag-jim-broadbent","tag-ruth-jones","tag-the-choir","tag-tv","tag-various-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}