{"id":160465,"date":"2026-03-11T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160465\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:23:38","slug":"first-look-at-sherwood-star-in-bbcs-smoggie-queens-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160465\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at Sherwood star in BBC’s Smoggie Queens series 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC Three has dropped the first-look images from the second series<\/a> of its award-winning drag comedy Smoggie Queens, and BAFTA-winning actor Monica Dolan of Sherwood and Mr Bates vs The Post Office fame is among a raft of new additions to the cast.<\/p>\n

Dolan joins fellow newcomers Amalia Vitale and Freya Parker, as well as two very special Middlesbrough legends broadcaster Jeff Stelling and football pundit Chris Kamara. <\/p>\n

The core gang are all present and correct, of course. Written by RTS winner and BAFTA-nominated Middlesbrough native Phil Dunning, the show returns with its loveable ensemble: Dunning himself as the volatile Dickie, Mark Benton as drag queen Mam, Alexandra Mardell as self-styled hun Lucinda, Patsy Lowe as awkward Sal, and Elijah Young as newly out Stewart.<\/p>\n

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Returning guest actors include Charlotte Riley, Neil Grainger, Peter McPherson, Lauryn Redding, Michael Mather, Bill Fellows, Michael Hodgson, Steph McGovern and Michelle Visage.<\/p>\n

The new episodes pick up where series one left off. It’s business as usual, which is to say, utterly chaotic.<\/p>\n

Dickie is single and back on the hunt for romance, while Mam is facing some unwelcome ghosts from her past. Sal finds herself torn between Danni and Mel, Lucinda hits a road bump with Neil, and Stewart is embracing his exciting new chapter.<\/p>\n

Along the way, there are date nights, coming-out parties, a male beauty pageant and an actual football match.<\/p>\n

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Reviews for the first season were positive, with The Guardian<\/a> calling it “adorably sweet”. It wrote: “Smoggie Queens does a great job of capturing British camp sensibility: the cheerfully shonky glam, the deadpan humour, the cosy obscenity, the hearty embrace of all things tacky, unpretentious and mainstream.”<\/p>\n

The i Paper<\/a> said: “BBC Three\u2019s new sitcom Smoggie Queens is salty, surreal and very, very silly… Even when a zinger misses the target, the series\u2019 kinetic energy is infectious.”<\/p>\n

Smoggie Queens series two arrives on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer this spring. Series one is streaming now on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n

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