Series 3 of Jack Rooke's comedy will be the last, C4 announces

Jack Rooke’s semi-autobiographical comedy Big Boys will end after its third series, Channel 4 has announced. 

The show, which started life on the Edinburgh Fringe, returns next month with Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing reprising their roles as unlikely college flatmates.

However, that will be the end of the journey for their characters Jack and Danny, who were first seen on screen in 2022.

Writer and creator Rooke, said: ‘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!’

Set in 2013, series three will see the gang – also featuring Camille Coduri as Peggy and  Harriet Webb as Shannon – enter their final year at Brent Uni.

Channel 4 also just realased this trailer: 

The second series of Big Boys series won Rooke the best comedy writer award from Bafta and the Royal Television Society last year.

Created and written by: Jack Rooke
Made by: Roughcut TV
Executive producers:  Jack Rooke, Jim Archer, Ash Atalla and Alex ​Smith
Directed by: Jim Archer
Produced by: Bertie Peek
Commissioned for Channel 4 by: Charlie Perkins, head of comedy and Joe Hullait, commissioning executive for comedy.

Published: 14 Jan 2025