Edinburgh Fringe-originated college comedy series “Big Boys” is set to end after Season 3, Variety can confirm.
The show, which launched in 2022 after a run at the famous Scottish arts festival, stars Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing as unlikely flatmates, who are thrown together in their first year at Brent University.
The third and final season is set to air on Channel 4 in February. In the U.S. the first two seasons are available on Hulu.
Season 3 will see Jack (played by Llewellyn) and Danny (Pointing) back together as they navigate the roller-coaster of deadlines, dissertations and deadlines. With the show set in 2013, it will also see Jack deal with the devastating news that “The X-Factor” judge Louis Walsh is departing the singing competition.
Meanwhile Peggy (Camille Coduri) and Shannon (Harriet Webb) embark on new romances and nappy changes.
With “real” adult life on the horizon, will the friends choose each other or is the end of uni also the end of the road for their gang?
Katy Wix, Izuka Hoyle, Olisa Odele, Annette Badland and Jack Rooke also star.
“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,” said Rooke, who created and writes the series. “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 to 3. Thank you!”
Executive producers for “Big Boys” are Rooke, Jim Archer, Ash Atalla and Alex Smith for Roughcut TV. Archer directs, Bertie Peek produces. The show was commissioned for Channel 4 by the network’s head of comedy Charlie Perkins and its commissioning exec for comedy Joe Hullait.
Rooke is repped by Curtis Brown in the U.K. and UTA in the U.S.