Mandy Series 4 in production
Filming has started on the fourth series of Diane Morgan's Mandy.
The BBC says: "This series Mandy continues to live hand-to-wonky-mouth, cooking up enough dodgy side hustles and trashy cash hacks to hopefully climb up into the squeezed middle and out of the squashed bottom. Constantly harassed, pursued and persecuted by her benefits officer (Tom Basden), Mandy finds solace in her friend Lola's (Michelle Greenidge) salon, drinking in the heady aroma of cheap bleach and Minty Pig nail polish."
Guest stars for Series 4 include Sian Gibson (Car Share), Rosie Cavaliero (The Power Of Parker), Cheryl Fergison (EastEnders), Jamie Bisping (Things You Should Have Done) and Joanna Bacon (Breeders).
Meanwhile the returning cast joining Morgan, Basden and Greenidge again are Mark Silcox, Alistair Green, Michael Spicer, Miles Chapman, Tony Way, Robbie Gee, Pearce Quigley, Ben Rufus Green and Yuriko Kotani.
Diane Morgan says: "I couldn't be more thrilled to be asked to provide a quote for a press release that tells people how thrilled I am that the BBC is bringing back Mandy. However I am too busy writing, directing and starring in the show to come up with anything, so I've asked someone else to write it. They are thrilled."
Jon Petrie, BBC Director of Comedy, says: "Series 3 saw Mandy save a plane from a terrorist attack, commit mass murder with a blowpipe, and get fired from a biscuit factory. Mandy gets bigger, bolder, and more brilliantly absurd with every series - and we're here for every hilarious moment of Diane Morgan's brilliant creation."
The six new episodes, each fifteen minutes, will be on BBC Two later this year.