Karen Gillan puts on a leggy display in a little black dress as she larks around with co-star Hugh Bonneville on the promo trail for Douglas Is Cancelled

They have been on the promotional trail for their upcoming ITVX drama Douglas Is Canceled.

And Karen Gillan and Hugh Bonneville made the most of their time together as they walked around during a stay in London.

Scottish actress Gillan, 36, took to Instagram on Wednesday to document their time in the capital, sharing a series of photos of a little black dress paired with knee-high boots.

She posed up a storm during her stay at a hotel, taking photos in her room and walking down the hallway.

For one more moment, she included Hugh, with the pair showing off their best supermodel stances.

Bonneville is the spitting image of newsreader Huw Edwards in the upcoming ITVX drama Douglas Is Cancelled, in which he plays a ‘national treasure’ abandoned by his agent, colleagues and bosses in the wake of a scandal.

The black comedy, which was screened to international buyers this week at London’s TV Screenings festival, echoes the furore last year when Edwards was axed as the BBC’s highest-paid news presenter.

And while the events at the heart of the two stories are very different – ​​Bonneville’s TV host is ‘cancelled’ after a misogynistic comment – ​​the consequences for the main characters are surprisingly similar.

The star of Downton Abbey and W1A hit out at ‘cancel culture’ this week as he discussed his new role.

“You can pick examples from any generation,” he said. “The caveman was probably thrown out of the cave because he said something wrong.”

He continued, “I think one element of that is the crowds, and the fact that things are spreading so quickly. And there’s the relentless pursuit until someone virtually dies, or in some cases has even died.

‘It feels like kicking a corpse when it’s dead and continuing to stomp on it, like the tabloids have always done.

“But in the world of social media, with the screen of anonymity and the ability to bully and bully anonymously from a distance, that evil is only magnified.”

Edwards was taken off air following allegations in a newspaper in July that ‘more than £35,000’ had been paid to a young person in return for sexually explicit images.

In the ITV miniseries, Bonneville plays respected news presenter Douglas Bellowes.

He makes a misogynistic, off-the-cuff comment at a family wedding that is overheard. Events snowball and his personal and professional life is turned upside down.

Douglas’s TV co-host is played by Gillan.

Following on from another ‘cancel culture’ scandal – the Phillip Schofield controversy – she is ambitious and much younger than her counterpart (like Holly Willoughby) with a huge Instagram following. And because of that, she has the power to save Douglas’ career – or torpedo it.

Douglas Is Canceled was written by Sherlock creator Steven Moffat in 2018, long before Edwards or the Schofield drama, which saw the presenter retire from hosting This Morning after admitting to an ‘ill-advised but not illegal’ affair with a young colleague have had.

Moffat said: ‘When I wrote this I didn’t know the expression had been cancelled. Once I did that, I obviously immediately included it in the title. It’s a heated topic.’

He added: “Most of this was written before these things happened. And part of me is thinking, what if this guy is watching this, and then his name comes up?

‘That is his personal tragedy, he has suffered enough. So we don’t refer to anyone specifically. It’s clear enough that there are parallels in the real world.’