Filming for new BBC comedy series to take place near Abergele

Henpocalypse! Where a hen weekend meets the apocalypse, has been commissioned for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.

The sitcom is being produced by production company Various Artists Limited and has been written by Caroline Moran (Hullraisers, Raised by Wolves).

Caroline Moran. (Image: BBC Media Centre.)

Residents and businesses in Llanfair TH, near Abergele, have been sent a letter ahead of filming in the area which is taking place on Monday, February 20 and Tuesday, February 21.

The letter states: "Various Artists Limited is preparing for filming of Henpocalypse filming in Abergele and throughout North Wales and have agreed with several businesses to come film around Llanfair Talhaiarn.

"The scenes will be the hen's walking around a newly deserted apocalypse town finding security in a pharmacy.

"We are filming in and around the village; Olivia's, the Post Office and around School Lane. As we are filming a post-apocalypse world we do require some scenes with no car movements for the majority of filming. To do this safely we have employed a traffic management company to briefly stop and hold traffic while the scene is being filmed. Resident and business owners still have access to the village but will just require a short wait at our traffic light points."

The sitcom is being described as a "high-energy comedy romp", through the eyes of five women on the ultimate hen weekend, which goes very wrong leaving them in the ultimate fight for survival.

A further description reads: "When bridezilla-to-be Zara’s hen-do is interrupted by the end of the world, she and her four fellow working-class West Midlander best mates wait out the breakdown of human civilisation in an isolated holiday cottage in Wales.

"Emerging from quarantine into the harsh new post-apocalyptic world, they find the male population has almost entirely wiped out and Britain is now a hellscape in which only the very fittest will survive. It’s inevitable on a hen do there’ll be fractious dynamics between friends so how will they come together to work out what to do with the male stripper, the only man who seems to have survived? Pitted against a group of radicalised Pilates instructors and using sex toys as spears against the enemy, will the dysfunctional friends survive in the harsh new world of societal breakdown?"

Ms Moran said: "I can’t bloody believe I am getting to make a sitcom for BBC Two. That’s pretty much all I’ve ever wanted in life. The nation is now officially invited to our never-ending post-apocalyptic hen do. I guarantee high drama, tons of jokes, massive surprises and lots of penis-themed pound shop tat."

Tanya Qureshi, head of comedy at the BBC, said: “What could be more hilariously nightmarish than a hen do that never ends? Caroline has created a very funny show with an incredible collection of women at the heart of it."