BBC2 to get Freezing

BBC2 has commissioned two new episodes of the media satire Freezing.

Freezing was a half hour comedy pilot which was broadcast on BBC4 earlier this year as part of the channel's Tight Spot pilot season.

The show is billed as 'a modern, urban comedy about what happens when fame and promise start to fade away'. Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern play a previously successful couple whose careers are stuck in the mud.

Elizabeth (McGovern) is an Oscar–nominated American actress who was discovered by Robert Redford. She's acted in numerous successful films with the likes of Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Robert de Niro. That was then. Now she lives in a West London suburb with her publishing husband Matt (Bonneville) and spends a lot of time worrying about where the next job will come from. So does Matt because he's just been replaced by his assistant at the publishing firm where he worked for 15 years.

As a result – and for the first time in their marriage - Matt and Elizabeth now have to spend their days together at home – two freelancers seeking work.

Filming on the two new episodes are is due to begin soon. It is likely BBC2 will air them, and the original pilot, in early 2008.

Kenton Allen, the BBC Comedy North head said: "The audience reaction to the BBC pilot of Freezing was astonishingly positive so we're thrilled to be reuniting Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern and Tom Hollander for some further adventures on BBC2."

Freezing is written by James Wood (Elizabeth McGovern's husband) and produced and directed by Simon Curtis.