Olivia Colman worries about her family and her anniversary in an exclusive clip from her new sitcom Flowers, which is set to air this April.

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Colman plays Deborah Flowers, a music teacher trying to keep her family together but who suspects her author husband Maurice is having a homosexual affair.

The couple live in a crumbling old house, with Maurice’s mother and their twin children, who still live at home despite being 25.

The show will air from 25th April, and is written by Bafta-nominated writer Will Sharpe.

The show also stars Julian Barratt, who is best known as a member of The Mighty Boosh.

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Channel 4 promises that the show will swing “from the magical to the mundane to the downright mad”.

“This is a comedy about people who are struggling,” said Will Sharpe, “and the situations that arise if you refuse to admit that there are problems.”

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“Our aim is not to make light of the darkness but find the light within it.”

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