{"id":447161,"date":"2026-05-13T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447161\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:56:08","slug":"amandaland-renewed-for-third-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447161\/","title":{"rendered":"Amandaland renewed for third series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAFTA award-winning comedy Amandaland has been renewed for a third series, the BBC has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The show, which stars Lucy Punch, Joanna Lumley and Philippa Dunne, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2026\/0510\/1572671-adolescence-leads-winners-at-tv-baftas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was awarded the BAFTA for Best Scripted Comedy at Sunday&#8217;s ceremony, and will return for a new six-part run.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Director of BBC Comedy, Jon Petrie, made the announcement at the BBC Comedy Festival in Liverpool on Wednesday, where he revealed that Black Ops will also return for a third series.<\/p>\n<p>The comedy stars Gbemisola Ikumelo and Saturday Night Live UK&#8217;s Hammed Animashaun as two undercover cops and has also enjoyed a string of awards, including a BAFTA for Ikumelo for Best Female Comedy Performance.<\/p>\n<p>As well as returning series, Petrie announced new shows including Hopley Hall, which will follow the staff and volunteers at a country house in Northern Ireland and stars Derry Girls&#8217; Jamie-Lee O&#8217;Donnell.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Opening Up is set and filmed in and around Manchester and will feature Amy Gledhill in the lead role.<\/p>\n<p>A new documentary, Twenty Years of Not Going Out,  will celebrate two decades of Not Going Out, the hit sitcom created by and starring Lee Mack.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAFTA award-winning comedy Amandaland has been renewed for a third series, the BBC has announced. The show, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-447161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447161","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=447161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}