Sky & FX Renew Hilarious Original Comedy ‘Breeders’ For Season 2 Starring Martin Freeman & Daisy Haggard
Sky has announced the utterly hilarious comedy FX co-production ‘Breeders‘ starring Martin Freeman & Daisy Haggard will return for Season 2.
The series sees Martin Freeman star as Paul, a caring father discovering he’s not quite the man he thought he was. His partner in this impossibly steep parental climb is Ally (Daisy Haggard), who runs a recording studio, makes Paul laugh and has the ability to read a story to their children while she’s technically asleep.
In the first series, Paul and Ally are juggling fulltime careers, ageing parents, a mortgage, upheavals in their relationship and the unenviable curveballs of parenting their young children, Luke (George Wakeman) and Ava (Jayda Eyles). When Ally’s estranged father Michael (Michael McKean) appears on their doorstep, the family essentially takes on a third child, but this one comes with baggage and opinions. Paul’s own parents, Jackie (Joanna Bacon) and Jim (Alun Armstrong), are on hand to help out, but their generation does parenting a little differently….
“So pleased we get another go at Breeders,” commented Freeman. “I reckon the next one will be even better. It’s such a pleasure working with this team… we’ll see you all soon. Well, not soon. But at some point, honest.”
Academy Award-nominee and double Emmy Award-winner Simon Blackwell served as showrunner and created the series with double Emmy Award and Directors Guild of America Award winner Chris Addison and Emmy and BAFTA-winning Martin Freeman. Executive producers are Blackwell, Addison, Freeman, Richard Allen-Turner, Rob Aslett, David Martin, Jon Thoday, Toby Welch and Michael Wiggs. Ben Palmer is co-executive producer. Tilusha Ghelani, Sky commissioning editor, will executive produce for Sky.
“With scripts of this calibre, hilarity and honesty, and a cast lead by the uniquely relatable Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard, it’s no surprise Breeders struck such a huge chord with viewers,” adds Jon Mountague, Director of Comedy, Sky Studios. “Hats off to Simon Blackwell, Chris Addison and the team – we can’t wait to give birth to a second series.”
Sky original Breeders is produced by Avalon and FX Productions for Sky and FX Networks, and the first series gained widespread critical acclaim. ‘Breeders’ is one of the latest in a run of original comedies launching on Sky One with audiences of more than one million – including ‘Avenue 5’ (Starring Hugh Laurie), ‘Intelligence’ (with Nick Mohammed and David Schwimmer), ‘Hitmen’ (Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins) and ‘Code 404’ (Daniel Mays, Stephen Graham and Anna Maxwell Martin).
“We’re absolutely thrilled that Sky and FX have decided to let us torture Paul and Ally a bit more with another season of parenting trauma,” said Chris Addison. “That’s entirely because we’ve got more of the story we’re excited to tell and definitely not just because it’s basically free therapy for us. I flatly deny that.”
‘Breeders‘ airs on Sky One in the UK and FX in the USA.
