Bloods set to return for Series 3 on Sky
- Bloods looks set to return for a third series on Sky Comedy
- The paramedic sitcom, starring Samson Kayo and Jane Horrocks, is nominated for a prestigious Rose d'Or Award
- Bloods co-creator Nathan Bryon's debut film, the rom-com Rye Lane, is also set to hit cinemas soon
Bloods is set to return to Sky for a third series, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal.
The paramedic sitcom's second series only finished on Sky Comedy last month after the episodes were split in half between spring and autumn broadcasts. However, a writers' room was convened for further episodes earlier this year.
Nominated for best comedy in the international Rose d'Or Awards, the results of which will be announced next month, the sitcom stars co-creator Samson Kayo and Jane Horrocks.
Featuring a supporting cast of Julian Barratt, Motherland star Lucy Punch, reining Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Sam Campbell, Ellie White and Newark, Newark creator Nathan Foad, plus Adrian Scarborough, Aasiya Shah and Kevin Garry, Bloods has hitherto been written almost exclusively by Kayo's co-creator Nathan Bryon and Paul Doolan.
Focusing on the partnership of swaggering but insecure Maleek (Kayo) with over-friendly northern divorcee Wendy (Horrocks) as they attend a never-ending succession of 999 calls, the second series ended with Scarborough's character Gary in a critical but stable condition after collapsing at the "leaving party" of Darrell (Campbell), despite the latter having been given leave to remain in the UK.
Produced by Roughcut (People Just Do Nothing, Stath Lets Flats), critics have given it a mixed response, with the Independent hailing it as "a magnificent paramedic comedy full of gallows humour", The Observer deciding that "it somehow works as a comedy, if of the sweeter rather than distinctly darker kind" and The Guardian felt it had "a charm and warmth that, with a bit of a punch-up to the script, could turn it into something well worth a weekly 22 minutes of your time".
Meanwhile, Bryon's debut film, Rye Lane, is set to be released in cinemas and on Disney+ internationally soon.
As British Comedy Guide first revealed last year, when the rom-com had the working title Vibes & Stuff, Bryon and his regular collaborator Tom Melia wrote the screenplay for the film, which is about meeting the right person at the worst possible time and stars Vivian Oparah (Enterprice) and David Jonsson (Industry).
Produced by BBC Films, the BFI and Fox Searchlight, with DJ Films and Turnover Films, and named after the eponymous street in the "Little Lagos" area of Peckham, London, Rye Lane is also the feature debut of director Raine Allen-Miller.
A Sky spokesperson told BCG that Bloods was yet to be officially recommissioned.