Edinburgh Fringe-originated school comedy sequence “Massive Boys” is about to finish after Season 3, Selection can affirm.
The present, which launched in 2022 after a run on the well-known Scottish arts pageant, stars Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing as unlikely flatmates, who’re thrown collectively of their first yr at Brent College.
The third and remaining season is about to air on Channel 4 in February. Within the U.S. the primary two seasons can be found on Hulu.
Season 3 will see Jack (performed by Llewellyn) and Danny (Pointing) again collectively as they navigate the roller-coaster of deadlines, dissertations and deadlines. With the present set in 2013, it can additionally see Jack take care of the devastating information that “The X-Issue” decide Louis Walsh is departing the singing competitors.
In the meantime Peggy (Camille Coduri) and Shannon (Harriet Webb) embark on new romances and nappy modifications.
With “actual” grownup life on the horizon, will the chums select one another or is the top of uni additionally the top of the highway for his or her gang?
Katy Wix, Izuka Hoyle, Olisa Odele, Annette Badland and Jack Rooke additionally star.
“Ten years in the past I took a quite ramshackle comedy-theatre hour about grief and friendship to a humid cave on the Edinburgh Fringe and by no means thought a decade later it’d be a foolish, candy lil sitcom a couple of lad’s lad and a dweeby homosexual changing into finest mates,” mentioned Rooke, who created and writes the sequence. “My therapist (an in depth lesbian good friend) recommended that ‘Massive Boys’ is subconsciously about me not having the ability to say a correct goodbye to sure individuals or intervals of my life, and so to provide this present a remaining send-off is a large honour. I’ve identified the ending for the reason that pilot, and I hope it nonetheless represents these first Edinburgh reveals but in addition the collaborative genius of our unimaginable forged, crew and artistic group. I’ll be indebted to them all the time for giving me the funniest, happiest years making ‘Massive Boys’ 1 to three. Thanks!”
Govt producers for “Massive Boys” are Rooke, Jim Archer, Ash Atalla and Alex Smith for Roughcut TV. Archer directs, Bertie Peek produces. The present was commissioned for Channel 4 by the community’s head of comedy Charlie Perkins and its commissioning exec for comedy Joe Hullait.
Rooke is repped by Curtis Brown within the U.Ok. and UTA within the U.S.