Big Boys to end after Series 3
- Big Boys Series 3 will air on Channel 4 in February, but it will be the final six episodes of the hit show
- The new episodes will see the gang enter their final year at Brent Uni
- Creator Jack Rooke says: "To give this show a final send-off is a huge honour"
Big Boys is to return to Channel 4 for a third series in February, but the network has announced it will be the final series of the comedy.
The cast of Dylan Llewellyn, Jon Pointing, Camille Coduri, Katy Wix, Izuka Hoyle, Olisa Odele, Harriet Webb and Annette Badland will return for the six final episodes.
Series 3 will see the gang enter their final year at Brent Uni, with all the ups and downs of dissertations, deadlines, dating and "the devastating departure of Louis Walsh from The X-Factor (for Jack anyway!)".
Peggy and Shannon embark on new romances and never-ending nappy changes, whilst Jack and Danny's friendship is tested to its limits as they realise proper adult life is coming.
Channel 4 says: "Will the boys still choose each other like before, or will this be the end of the road?"
BAFTA-winning writer and creator, Jack Rooke, says: "Ten years ago I took a rather ramshackle comedy-theatre hour about grief and friendship to a damp cave at the Edinburgh Fringe and never thought a decade later it'd be a silly, sweet lil sitcom about a lad's lad and a dweeby gay becoming best mates. My therapist (a close lesbian friend) suggested that Big Boys is subconsciously about me not being able to say a proper goodbye to certain people or periods of my life, and so to give this show a final send-off is a huge honour. I've known the ending since the pilot, and I hope it still represents those first Edinburgh shows but also the collaborative genius of our incredible cast, crew and creative team. I'll be indebted to them always for giving me the funniest, happiest years making Big Boys 1-3. Thank you!"
With Big Boys being a loosely autobiographical format, viewers who have seen Rooke's live show, or read his book Cheer The F**K Up: How To Save Your Best Friend, will be aware that the show is set for a poignant end.
Here is the trailer for Series 3: