Inbetweeners' third series confirmed

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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Inbetweeners' third series confirmed
Inbetweeners' third series confirmed (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

The Inbetweeners will return for a third series - but makers forgot to tell the stars of the show. The hit E4 sitcom about four misfit teenagers has been recommissioned - but James Buckley (Jay) only heard when a fan sent a message to congratulate him on Twitter. James wrote: "Where has Inbetweeners 3 been announced? Genuinely haven't been told, sending a few text messages to see if there really is a third series." He later added: "Green light on series three, just didn't get round to telling us boys! Gonna have celebratory Coco Pops." The show - which also stars Simon Bird, Joe Thomas and Blake Harrison - will return next year. E4 chief Angela Jain said the show had "some of the most beautifully-crafted puerile and funny jokes ever seen on British television". The second series recieved a Bafta nomination and two British Comedy Awards.

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.