Gym comedy Peacock returns to BBC Three for a full series
- Gym comedy Peacock, from the People Just Do Nothing team, is returning to BBC Three for six more episodes, following a three episode run last year
- Allan 'Seapa' Mustafa returns as personal trainer Andy Peacock, a macho throwback struggling to adjust to a woke world
- Steve Stamp and Ben Murray have once again written the scripts, as Peacock tries to keep his fitness business and relationship on track
The BBC has ordered a full series of Allan 'Seapa' Mustafa's gym comedy Peacock, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal.
The People Just Do Nothing and The Curse star will return as personal trainer Andy Peacock in the six-part BBC Three series, following three episodes last year.
The macho throwback is still a man out of time, but the proud owner of a body-positive fitness business and in an adult relationship. His life is on the up and only his ego can mess things up now.
Written by People Just Do Nothing's Steve Stamp and Ben Murray, who directed Kurupt FM's earliest YouTube videos, other returning cast have yet to be confirmed, but Stamp, Thomas Gray, Lucien Laviscount, Susan Wokoma, Sophia Di Martino, Callie Cooke and Henry Perryment were among those that featured in all of last year's episodes, which followed two non-broadcast pilots.
"We are excited to bring you more of everyone's favourite PT Andy Peacock as he clumsily navigates the modern world, gym culture and seeks to build on his Body Positive Peacock movement" said Stamp.
Speaking in 2019, he revealed that he suggested Mustafa for the role of Peacock after Dominic Cooper had initially played the role in a 2018 pilot produced for Sky.
"I said Seapa should do it because he's such an incredible comedy force on set" he explained. "He can carry a show basically, we need his energy as Andy Peacock."
The character has been updated since it was originally conceived. Now, "there's a lot of stuff about wokeness that this character's dealing with" Stamp added. "It's always been about toxic masculinity and being a man in his mid-30s who's having a crisis of 'who am I and what have I achieved?'
"But it's now become a bit more dense in terms of the things he's having to deal with. So now we've added an idea that he's going to become the equalities officer at the gym. So a white guy speaking on behalf of all these different minorities."
Once again produced by Lara Singer (Defending The Guilty) for Big Talk (Friday Night Dinner, Back), Peacock's executive producers are Stamp, Kenton Allen, Saurabh Kakkar and Ben Murray. It was commissioned by Jon Petrie, director of BBC Comedy and the BBC Commissioning Editor is Seb Barwell.