Channel 4 return to the Big Boys one final time

The show returns next month for a third and final run of episodes…

Big Boys series three featuring Dylan Llewellyn, Jon Pointing, Camille Coduri, Katy Wix, Izuka Hoyle, Olisa Odele, Harriet Webb, Annette Badland and Jack Rooke returns in February Channel 4 have today confirmed.

Created and written by Jack Rooke and produced by Roughcut TV, the show will be back for a third and final series.

BAFTA-winning writer and creator, Jack Rooke:

“Ten years ago I took a rather ramshackle comedy-theatre hour about grief and friendship to a damp cave at the Edinburgh Fringe and never thought a decade later it’d be a silly, sweet lil sitcom about a lad’s lad and a dweeby gay becoming best mates.

“My therapist (a close lesbian friend) suggested that Big Boys is subconsciously about me not being able to say a proper goodbye to certain people or periods of my life, and so to give this show a final send-off is a huge honour. I’ve known the ending since the pilot, and I hope it still represents those first Edinburgh shows but also the collaborative genius of our incredible cast, crew and creative team. I’ll be indebted to them always for giving me the funniest, happiest years making Big Boys 1-3. Thank you!”

Big Boys aired to critical acclaim in 2022 and earned Jack a spot on the prestigious BAFTA Breakthrough programme alongside receiving multiple BAFTA nominations across series one. The first outing was described as ‘a silly, sweet comedy about two boys from very different ends of the “spectrum of masculinity” who become best mates at Brent Uni Freshers Week 2013.’

Jack (Dylan Llewellyn) is a dweeby, sheltered, closeted boy from Watford, trying to both overcome grief after his dad’s passing and figure out what he actually wants in life. He leaves potty-mouthed matriarch PEGGY (Camille Coduri) who has persuaded him to take up a scholarship at a local uni so he can make something of himself and not just be stuck at home, masturbating and knitting blankets to sell on Etsy.

Meanwhile DANNY (Jon Pointing) is your typical loud and proud lads’ lad. Hailing from a run-down seaside town, Danny is a few years older than every other fresher, trying to live out a lost adolescence whilst confronting the demons of his own mental health. Living in an ex-classroom shed on campus, the boys get thrown together by the enigmatic JULES (Katy Wix), the head of the SU who was once a student herself a decade ago and has just never, ever, left.

Big Boys series two won Jack Best Comedy Writer at 2024’s BAFTA Craft Awards and Best Comedy Writer at The Royal Television Society awards 2024. The show has also been presented with comedy awards at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards, Edinburgh TV Festival and Writers Guild of Great Britain.

The second series picked up in summer 2014, with Jack’s dead Dad’s 60th birthday. The gang grappled with having nowhere to live for second year whilst Jack had an eye-opening gay encounter. Later in the series the second year ends as Jack, Danny & Corinne headed for work experience with a banter-obsessed lads mag editor & an overly keen radio host.