BBC’s biggest comedy of the year bags a second series after rave reviews
THE stars of hit comedy Colin From Accounts are confident they will land another series – despite telly bosses having yet to commission one.
Writers Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall, who are a real-life Aussie couple and play the lead roles, say they planted a number of mini-storylines in the debut series ready to explore in a follow-up.
And given the BBC comedy has earned rave reviews across the globe, they feel it is inevitable they’ll get a sequel.
Harriett said: “There has to be but we haven’t got a green light yet.
“It’s very sad – the guy who commissioned it passed away a couple of months ago.
“Brian Walsh, who’s a giant in Australian TV, and that might be slowing things down a bit.”
Patrick told the Pilot TV podcast: “It will come. We have got lots of fun stuff that make us laugh.”
It’s brilliant telly and can be viewed in full now on iPlayer.
A TITCHY FEAT, BOB
BOB Mortimer has revealed he was once mistaken for TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh, in a mix-up which rescued a night out.
Bob – one half of BBC Two show Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, with fellow comic Paul Whitehouse – told how he slipped out of a music gig for a crafty cigarette and bouncers wouldn’t let him back in – until another security man intervened, thinking he was Alan.
Bob recalls: “I went to see Rufus Wainwright at the Brighton Dome. I went out for a fag – I was smoking then – and they wouldn’t let me back in . . . then the security bloke beckoned me, let me in, and thought I was Alan Titchmarsh.”
Speaking to the Where There’s A Will There’s A Wake podcast, he added: “One hundred per cent, he was like, ‘All right, Alan’.
That’s handy if he ever needs some free tickets for the Chelsea Flower Show.
SAM: I’M BIG FRY, GORDON
A FINALIST on Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars hopes winning the show will help make her restaurant as big as Nando’s.
The BBC One series ends tomorrow night as the remaining three contestants battle to secure the fiery chef’s £150,000 investment.
And Sam, who runs Hot N Juicy Shrimp LDN, reckons Gordon’s cash could elevate her firm to a new level.
She says: “The joy that I’d feel if I win Gordon’s investment is indescribable.
“Everything that has been achieved with Hot N Juicy Shrimp LDN has been without any loans or investments. So having investment – and not just any investment but from Gordon Ramsay – would sky-rocket our brand and allow it to become an international household name, like the Nando’s of seafood boils.”
Sam joins Amy and Andy in the final, which will be held at Rangers’ Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, where the Scot’s football hopes came to an end before he kickstarted his glittering career as a chef.
That didn’t go too badly.
THE BAY'S HIGH FIVE
ITV’S The Bay is returning for a fifth season.
It comes after Marsha Thomason made her debut in the last series of the police drama as DS Jenn Townsend.
Filming resumes later this year and bosses have teased a new storyline which will see the investigators focusing on the emotionally complex life of a divided family.
With a victim’s mother and father bitterly divorced, Jenn and the team will have to tread carefully to keep the whole family onside.
The Bay is co-created and written by award-winning playwright Daragh Carville, the man behind BBC3 supernatural comedy-drama Being Human.
The cast spoke earlier this year about how they would often spot Morecambe resident Tyson Fury in the Lancs town between takes.
The world boxing champ is clearly keen to bag a role in a cameo slot.