Fleabag is coming back for a second series
Phoebe Waller-Bridge confirms she’s making a new series of her comedy Fleabag, but it won’t be with us until 2019
Some great news today at Edinburgh International Television Festival: Amazon and the BBC have renewed the blisteringly funny sitcom Fleabag for a second season.
Created by and starring the immensely talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the show follows the disastrous exploits of a nameless young woman trying to navigate her tumultuous love life and her failing business. The first season of Fleabag premiered on the BBC last year and quickly became a cult hit both sides of the Atlantic. Waller-Bridge’s central performance also won her best female performance in a comedy at the BAFTAs back in May.
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival – in the city where Waller-Bridge initially began Fleabag as a one-woman show, and where the show is currently taking in a limited run at the Udderbelly – BBC comedy controller Shane Allen said that the first series of the show “signalled the arrival of a hugely distinctive writer with the mesmerising performing talent to match.
“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,” Allen added. “It’ll be thrilling to see where she takes the character in the next series.”
Waller-Bridge added in a statement: "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."
Fleabag season two is expected to be released on the BBC and Amazon in 2019