Sky Arts in female history with a Psycho twist

Sky Arts is to air Playhouse Presents… Psychobitches, an all-star sketch show that sees some of history’s most famous women psychoanalysed.
The comedy, to air for a series in 2013, celebrates outstanding women from history and all their gloriously bonkers issues. One therapist’s room, one therapist and a waiting room full of acclaimed ladies.

“We are very proud of Psychobitches, a honeypot for our funniest comedy actresses. A treat for 2013,”says Lucy Lumsden, Head of Comedy, Sky.

Starring Rebecca Front as the therapist, the series will see the core cast play a number of women from history including Julia Davis as Sylvia Plath, Sharon Horgan as Eve, Sam Spiro as Audrey Hepburn, Frances Barber Bette Davis, Kathy Burke as Mona Lisa, and Katy Brand as Mary Shelley. It also features Tamsin Egerton, Selina Griffiths, Zawe Ashton, Jo Scanlan, Sarah Solemani and Sharon D Clarke.
The series will also include characters from Jack Whitehall, Harry Enfield and reunites all the League of Gentlemen team Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton.
James Hunt, Channel Director of Sky Arts, has confirmed that a new run of Playhouse Presents… will begin in the spring. Psychobitches began life on the channel as one of the Playhouse Presents, Sky Arts’s hugely successful series of 30 minute comedies and dramas.