{"id":582116,"date":"2026-05-13T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582116\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:52:08","slug":"two-doors-down-will-return-for-eighth-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582116\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Doors Down will return for eighth season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A slow-burn hit set in suburban Glasgow, Two Doors Down started as a one-off special in 2013 before the first series was commissioned in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It revolves around married couple Beth and Eric &#8211; played by Arabella Weir and Alex Norton &#8211; and their intrusive family members and neighbours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The storytelling often focuses on small, trivial incidents &#8211; in one episode the only significant event is that Alan, played by Graham &#8220;Grado&#8221; Stevely, has some spare doughnuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Season eight will see Beth and Eric cling to their hopes of a quiet life despite the relentless chaos from neighbours Colin, Cathy and Christine &#8211; played by Jonathan Watson, Doon Mackichan and Elaine C Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Scotland&#8217;s head of commissioning Louise Thornton said it was &#8220;fantastic&#8221; to see the return of the characters which were &#8220;loved by audiences up and down the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jon Petrie, BBC director of comedy, added: &#8220;We&#8217;re really proud to bring it back for another series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will also be a run of Two Doors Down live shows at Glasgow&#8217;s Hydro in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A slow-burn hit set in suburban Glasgow, Two Doors Down started as a one-off special in 2013 before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-582116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}