Katherine Parkinson is making her return to TV comedy with the BBC.The BAFTA-winning IT Crowd star has spent the last few years dodging killer robots on Channel 4’s Humans, but her next TV project will see her rangling a class of pupil barristers

In BBC Two’s forthcoming Defending the Guilty, Parkinson plays a pupilmaster called Caroline whose job is to wake up her bright-eyed students to the confusing and often disappointing realities of the law.

Source: Katherine Parkinson sets new BBC sitcom Defending the Guilty