Year of the Rabbit Channel 4 Cast List, Air Date & Trailer – TV Comedy

Here we take a look at the official trailer, cast list (including The Elephant Man Mr Merrick) and air date details to the new TV comedy series Year of the Rabbit, that’ll be broadcast here in the UK on Channel 4 and in America on IFC.

Watch the full Channel 4 advert trailer:

When does Year of the Rabbit start on British television?

As announced in the above video, Channel 4 have now officially set the shows release date for Monday 10 June 2019 and will be broadcast over 6, 30-minute episodes.

Year of the Rabbit Cast List – TV Comedy

Character Name – Actor – Previous Work

Detective Inspector Rabbit – Matt Berry – Toast of London, The IT Crowd, What We Do in the Shadows

Lydia – Keeley Hawes – Bodyguard, The Durrells, Summer of Rockets

Mabel Wisbech – Susan Wokoma – Porters, Chewing Gum, Crazyhead

Mr Merrick (The Elephant Man) – David Dawson – The Last Kingdom, Ripper Street, Banished

Flora – Jill Halfpenny – Three Girls, In the Club, Humans

Wilbur Strauss – Freddie Fox – Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!, Cucumber

Princess Juliana of Bulgaria – Sally Phillips – Tourist Trap, Smack the Pony, Zapped

Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech – Alun Armstrong – Frontier, Prime Suspect 1973, New Tricks

Tanner – Paul Kaye – After Life, Game of Thrones

Gwen – Ann Mitchell – EastEnders, Call the Midwife

Baz – David Arthur

Keith – Amer Chadha-Patel – Beecham House

Year of the Rabbit sees actor Matt Berry play the comedies title role of Detective Inspector Rabbit, a hardened boozy cop working in London during Victorian times. Rabbit’s aided and abetted in his investigations by his new partner Wilbur Strauss and Britain’s first female police officer, Mabel Wisbech, as they seek to bring justice to the streets of London’s East End.