BBC Renews ‘Fleabag’ For Season 2… In 2019!
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ‘Fleabag‘ is set to return for a 2nd Series on BBC Three, but not until 2019 the star has announced.
Speaking at Edinburgh Television Festival, Waller-Bridge commented “I asked myself if Fleabag has more to say and frankly she hasn’t shut up since. Series two will be a whole new adventure, and I’m beyond thrilled to be coming back.”
The 1st series was adapted from Waller-Bridges’ award-winning play, and saw Fleabag, a dry-witted, angry, cash-strapped, grief-riddled, porn-watching young woman trying to come to terms with a recent tragedy.
Since airing in 2016, the 1st season swept the board at ceremonies in 2016 and 2017, winning a BAFTA, Royal Television Society, British Press Guild, Broadcast and even NME Awards!
“Fleabag signalled the arrival of a hugely distinctive writer with the mesmerising performing talent to match,” adds BBC Controller of Comedy, Shane Allen. “Phoebe’s career has shot up like a firework display in the last year and the show has been rightly hailed as a modern classic. It’ll be thrilling to see where she takes the character in the next series.”
The long delay in bringing the 2nd season to the screen would seem to have something to do with Phoebe’s meteoric rise over the last few years. She has recently completed work on ‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ with Margot Robbie & Domhnall Gleeson, is currently working on new ‘Han Solo’ movie with Alden Ehrenreich & Donald Glover, and is as showrunner and executive producer of BBC America’s upcoming 2018 drama, ‘Killing Eve’.
‘Fleabag‘ will return to BBC Three in 2019 and on Amazon Prime Video in Over 200 Countries outside of the UK.
