{"id":298623,"date":"2026-07-17T13:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298623\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:31:19","slug":"smoggie-queens-recommissioned-for-third-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298623\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoggie Queens recommissioned for third series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:BBC;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"BBC\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"487\" height=\"100\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aol_bbc_articles_618.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fri, July 17, 2026 at 12:40 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The Smoggie Queens cast lined up walking towards the camera with an industrial structure behind them.\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1888\" height=\"1062\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e9e50279-fce0-465d-93e6-46357589d343.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The iPlayer and BBC Three programme follows a gang of LGBTQ+ friends from Middlesbrough<\/p>\n<p>The BBC series Smoggie Queens is to return for a third series.<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning iPlayer and BBC Three programme follows a gang of friends who are fiercely proud of their town Middlesbrough and their small pocket of the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n<p>Cast member and writer Phil Dunning is set to return alongside Mark Benton, Alexandra Mardell, Patsy Lowe, and Elijah Young &#8211; with more casting to be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>Dunning said: &#8220;So buzzing to be recommissioned for series 3 &#8211; going to have a cheeky Bloody Mam to celebrate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Series producer Chris Jones said: &#8220;Phil and I love making this show so much, and the collaboration, care and creativity that every department brings to it is truly special.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait for us all to get back to the Boro and make another mad series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Follow BBC Tees on <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCTees\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X,<\/a><a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbctees\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/3yyMYUI\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nextdoor<\/a> and <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcneandcumbria\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>        Related stories<br \/>\n      <img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3f15b0a3-f9a1-482e-8836-6fba3369b8c5.jpg\"\/><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, July 17, 2026 at 12:40 PM UTC The iPlayer and BBC Three programme follows a gang of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-298623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}