Sky Orders Player Pranks with Micah Richards

Sky has commissioned Zig Zag and Krempelwood to produce Player Pranks, a new series led by former Manchester City and England defender Micah Richards.

Player Pranks will see Richards team up with his Sky Sports colleague Adam “Smithy” Smith to take to the field with hidden cameras, props and comic actors to inject mayhem into the lives of some of the U.K.’s most famous football personalities. The four-part series will air on Sky Max and Sky Sports this August.

Among those on the receiving end of Richards and Smith’s pranks are Sky Sports legend and former professional footballer and manager Chris Kamara, Lionesses star Jill Scott, Sky Sports pundit and former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher and former Spurs and England star Jermaine Jenas.

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.”