Who's Who in Zapped

Meet the residents of Munty, a bizarre backwater town in a parallel world. Oh and Brian. An internet publishing sales assistant.

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Brian Weaver (played by James Buckley)

Brian is an internet publishing sales assistant (no, he doesn’t really know what that means either) who has accidentally been transported to a parallel world.

Leaving behind his dead-end job, he has instead ended up in the dead-end town of Munty where he’s fallen in with a gang of dead-beats and oddballs at one of Munty’s less salubrious watering holes, The Jug and the Other Jug.

Gradually Brian is becoming resigned to being stuck in this strange new universe and starting to learn more about it. However, he’s never quite on the same page as everyone else, which often results in Brian stumbling into dangerous, or at least painful, situations.

Want to see more? We sat down with James Buckley ahead of the new series.
Barbara (played by Sharon Rooney)

Barbara is the outwardly cheerful, yet rather lonely, soothsayer who is convinced that Brian is her saviour.

A down-on-her-luck fortune teller, she struggles for clients, and is desperate for the status that would be come with admission to the legendary Seers’ Guild.

Her predictions are often startlingly accurate, but only in retrospect – which is not very useful. And no one takes her seriously anyway.
Steg Steggson (played by Kenneth Collard)

Steg is an opinionated know-it-all. A pub expert on everything and an armchair revolutionary (emphasis on the armchair).

He is half-dwarf, half-giant. So although he looks exactly like an average human, his sensitivity about his double-minority roots has made him extremely chippy.

He spends his days sitting in The Jug and the Other Jug offering his unwanted opinions on anything and everything. He means well, but unfortunately his obnoxious personality subverts his efforts at every turn.
Howell (played by Paul Kaye)

Trustworthy, loyal, reliable... are not words you would use to describe Howell, an unpredictable, eccentric, brain-fried wizard.

Years of exposure to high-level magic (during the notorious Mage Wars) and reckless substance abuse have left him in a near-addled state.

He lives a hand-to-mouth existence, just one jump ahead of trouble. He’s always on the look-out for a deal or scam that will keep him in booze and relatively unharmed for another 24 hours. He’s like a magical, acid-damaged version of Lovejoy.
Herman (played by Louis Emerick)

Trusting and gullible and not the brightest wick in the candelabra, Herman is a retired warrior. Sadly, his chest has slipped a bit in the last ten years. Like all ex-warriors, he has moved on, opened a pub and started boring the regulars with increasingly tall tales of his previous life.

Set in his ways, he just wants a quiet life, but ideally with customers who are rather better than his current crop of regulars.

He dreams of retiring to a little place by the sea, which he probably could do if Howell ever settled his bar bill.