EXCLUSIVE: Gavin & Stacey co-creators James Corden and Ruth Jones have landed their next big series and we can tell you the new Apple TV+ show will be called The Choir.

We understand Corden and Jones are playing the leads and exec producing The Choir and will star as brother and sister Ben and Lisa, who haven’t 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’s estranged.

We are revealing plot details for the first time. Filming on the eight-part comedy drama will begin next year, we are told. We are unsure at this stage who will produce the show, although Corden’s own Fulwell Entertainment, which made the Gavin & Stacey finale with Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow, will likely be in the mix.

A Jones and Corden Apple deal was first floated by The Sun several months back and was valued at around £8M ($10.8M), although Apple is not commenting on the figure and insiders steered away from it being a “multi-million pound deal.” Thoughts at that time had been turning to what Corden and Jones would do next following the finale of their hit Gavin & Stacey BBC series, which was 2024’s most-watched TV show in the UK as it concluded on Christmas day to an eventual audience of more than 20 million people. The knockout sitcom is one of the UK’s most-loved over the past two decades and also starred Rob Brydon, Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb.

Corden made the finale once he returned to the UK after ending his lengthy run hosting The Late, Late Show in the States. Jones, meanwhile, is set to star in the BBC and BritBox’s The Other Bennet Sister and Netflix’s next Harlan Coben adaptation, Run Away.

The show is the latest big bet from Apple TV+’s highly-rated Europe boss Jay Hunt, who has found success with the likes of Slow Horses and Bad Sisters. On the sitcom side the streamer has aired five seasons of Rafe Spall-starrer Trying. That show is soon to reach a wider UK audience after the BBC picked up the first three seasons.

Jones is represented by Curtis Brown. Corden is represented by United Agents, CAA and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.

Apple TV+ declined comment.