Channel 4 Comedy and Entertainment Commissioning Editor, Darren Smith, has commissioned Big Talk Productions and Popper Pictures' new single-camera comedy, Friday Night Dinner, to full series.

Friday Night Dinner stars Tamsin Greig (Green Wing, Black Books), Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners), Paul Ritter (Pulling) and comedy newcomer Tom Rosenthal.

Each episode takes place over the course of a Friday night, as twenty-something brothers Adam (Simon Bird) and Jonny (Tom Rosenthal) go round to their parents' house for Friday night dinner.

Many Jewish families - who aren't even remotely religious - have a tradition of Friday Night Dinner. It's a time for food, family and general bickering. Sometimes candles are lit. Think Sunday lunch; then take two days away, and move up one in the meal scale, and that's the setting.

Friday Night Dinner is written and produced by Robert Popper, co-creator of BBC2's Look Around You and author of the best-selling The Timewaster Letters. He also produced the BAFTA-winning Peep Show and script-edited The Inbetweeners and The IT Crowd.

Darren Smith said: "Friday Night Dinner is a brilliantly funny, fresh and well observed take on family life with something of a dream cast - an irresistible commission from Robert's pilot."

Robert Popper said: "I want the show to capture the way we all revert to being kids again when we go round to our parents'. But it's also pretty autobiographical, i.e. it features a dad who drinks ketchup straight from the bottle, just like mine."

As a former Comedy Commissioning Editor at Channel 4, Robert commissioned Bo' Selecta!, helped develop The IT Crowd, and oversaw two series of Black Books and series two of Spaced.

Directed by Steve Bendelack (The Royle Family, The League of Gentlemen), Friday Night Dinner is executive produced by Big Talk Productions' Chief Executives, Kenton Allen (The Royle Family) and Nira Park (Spaced).

Friday Night Dinner will air on Channel 4.