{"id":447114,"date":"2026-05-13T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447114\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:20:08","slug":"bbc-renews-season-3-of-amandaland-am-i-being-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447114\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Renews Season 3 Of ‘Amandaland & ‘Am I Being Unreasonable?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBBC<\/a> comedy boss Jon Petrie<\/a> is all about returners as the corporation\u2019s annual Comedy Festival gets underway.<\/p>\n

\n\tPetrie has given second and third season greenlights to six shows plus an eighth for stalwart Two Doors Down and a documentary about Not Going Out, the BBC\u2019s longest-running sitcom.<\/p>\n

\n\tFresh off its BAFTA win for Best Scripted Comedy, Amandaland<\/a> Season 3 is among the returners alongside Daisy May Cooper\u2019s Am I Being Unreasonable?<\/a> and Black Ops<\/a> starring Gbemisola Ikumelo and SNL UK breakout Hammed Animashaun. There are also new seasons of Lucia Keskin\u2019s Things You Should Have Done, A24 and Various Artists\u2019 Such Brave Girls<\/a>, and Mammoth, the latter of which is currently being developed in the U.S.<\/a> with Fox.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside the returners, the BBC has ordered Hopley Hall [working title] starring Derry Girls lead Jamie-Lee O\u2019Donnell and Opening Up created by stand-up comic Amy Gledhill with Starstruck actor Nic Sampson. The former follows the ensemble of staff who keep a Grade 1 listed house running in the Northern Irish countryside, while the latter follows a long-term couple who try to fix their faltering sex life by sleeping with other people. <\/p>\n

\n\tNone of the returners come as a huge surprise but revealing them all at the same time shows the confidence Petrie now has in his slate as he attempts to build out the next generation of long-running hits. Motherland spin-off Amandaland in particular has been a bit of a sensation, drawing huge audiences to the BBC, winning a BAFTA and generating memes aplenty. At the BAFTAs on Sunday, co-writer Holly Walsh said her dream Amandaland guest is Melania Trump<\/a>, describing her as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Amanda.\u201d Walsh will now be feeling the pressure to get the First Lady on board.<\/p>\n

\n\tAm I Being Unreasonable?, meanwhile, has given a shot in the arm to a new comedy thriller sub-genre, while the likes of Black Ops and Such Brave Girls are highly rated. <\/p>\n

\n\tPetrie is addressing the BBC Comedy Festival in Liverpool this afternoon. The likes of James Corden, Ruth Jones and Diane Morgan are set to speak over the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC comedy boss Jon Petrie is all about returners as the corporation\u2019s annual Comedy Festival gets underway. Petrie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[194409,194410,1578,40497,93,61,60,194411,194412,282],"class_list":["post-447114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-am-i-being-unreasonable","tag-amandaland","tag-bbc","tag-black-ops","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jon-petrie","tag-such-brave-girls","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}