Intelligence appears set to end with feature-length special
- Intelligence is returning to Sky, with the spy sitcom preparing to shoot a feature-length special
- Part of the action will take place at a climate conference
- Creator and star Nick Mohammed has said: "It might be something a little different to what people are expecting, that's all I'll say"
Intelligence appears set to end with a feature-length special, British Comedy Guide can exclusively confirm.
Written by Nick Mohammed, who also stars alongside David Schwimmer, the spy sitcom ran for two series on Sky One. And the comedian and Ted Lasso star has increasingly suggested he might seek to wrap it up with a film.
Now BCG can reveal that part of the plot for the special, which is slated to shoot next year and again be directed by Matt Lipsey, will see the GCHQ operatives monitoring a climate conference.
It will also presumably reveal who kidnapped arrogant NSA agent Jerry (Schwimmer) at the conclusion of Series 2, when he was shown being bundled into the back of a van. Mohammed's character Joseph was also fired from GCHQ when the last episode aired in 2021.
Mohammed is about to begin a festive run as Mr Swallow at the Soho Theatre in London tomorrow, in A Christmas Carol-Ish..., his excitable character's musical take on Charles Dickens' enduring classic, which co-stars his regular collaborators David Ives and Kieran Hodgson, as well as Miranda star Sarah Hadland.
Speaking on Gaby Roslin's podcast earlier this year, he said that Intelligence's second series "ended on the biggest cliffhanger ... so I think we can't just end on that.
"But it might be something a little different to what people are expecting, that's all I'll say" he predicted of the next instalment.
With Mohammed's Ted Lasso character, Nate, having become the main antagonist in the hit Apple TV+ football sitcom ahead of its third series airing, and having recently shot the black comedy film Maggie Moore(s) in New Mexico with Tina Fey and Jon Hamm, the character comic has seen his profile rise in America.
He will also appear as "a plucky but prickly" spirit in Disney+'s upcoming UK original, Renegade Nell, a highwaywoman fantasy series starring Derry Girls' Louisa Harland in the title role, alongside Joely Richardson and Adrian Lester. And he voices Dr Fry in the animated film sequel Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget, which also features Romesh Ranganathan, Jane Horrocks, Imelda Staunton and Daniel Mays.
So it's perhaps impossible for him to commit enough time to a full third series of Intelligence, which also stars Sylvestra Le Touzel, Jane Stanness, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Oliver Birch, Eliot Salt, Lucy Ware and Colin Salmon, and is made for Sky by Expectation Entertainment (Alma's Not Normal, The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan) and Schwimmer's Dark Harbor Stories.