Jon Petrie, Director of Comedy for the BBC, announced the slate during a speech at the BBC’s Comedy Festival in Cardiff. He said: “It’s no exaggeration to say that British Comedy is hugely important to television and the national cultural landscape. It is a public service and needed now more than ever.
Mike White’s disquieting satire of the super-rich has had us gripped for the past six weeks as we watched trouble breakout in sun-soaked Sicily.
A first-look image shows the new leads and former Class K students Stephen (Layton Williams) and Mitchell (Charlie Wernham), who have returned to Abbey Grove as Drama and PE teachers to ‘educate’ a new school of misfits.
Nathan Bryon will lead a new team of breakthrough writers, including Laura Smyth, Leila Navabi, Priya Hall, Ciaran Bartlett, Rhys Taylor and Layton Williams.
