Zig Zag and Krempelwood to produce "Player Pranks" Sky original series

Zig Zag and Krempelwood have been commissioned by Sky to make "Player Pranks". The four-part series will air on Sky Max and Sky Sports this August as part of the countdown to the 2022/23 season. The co-production fronted by former Manchester City and England defender Micah Richards, sees the Premier League winner team up with his Sky Sports colleague Adam ‘Smithy’ Smith for a top-secret mission to prank the great and good of football.

In each 30-minute episode, Micah and his sidekick ‘Smithy’ take to the field with a bunch of hidden cameras, ingenious props and comic actors to inject mayhem into the lives of some of the country’s most famous football personalities, when they least expect it.

Danny Fenton, CEO at Zig Zag commented: “Bringing together the infectious Micah Richards in conjunction with Adam 'Smithy' Smith and a series of pranks played on football legends for Sky feels like the perfect entertainment combination. We hope the viewers have half as much fun watching it as we did making it.”

Barbara Lee, Commissioning Editor at Sky said: “We are huge fans of Micah Richards at Sky Max and are delighted to be working with him. He brings infectious fun to everything he does so he's perfectly cast in this as a mischievous prankster.”