ITV has recommissioned Piglets

ITV has recommissioned Piglets, one of its most talked about comedies of 2024for a brand new second series to air on ITV1 & ITVX. 

Filming has now commenced on the new 6 x 30 series from Monicker Pictures.

The first series is one of the biggest comedies on ITVX and has so far reached 5.6m across its 6 episodes and launched last July with 2.8m viewers.  

2024 was ITVX's biggest ever year for comedy, with 166 million streams, up +20% on the year before. And this year looks set to beat it, with over 70 million comedy streams already, up on last year by +32%.

Commissioned for ITV by Head of Scripted Comedy, Nana Hughes, Piglets follows a newly recruited group of six very different would-be cops and the handful of key staff whose thankless task it is to knock them into some kind of shape. 

The new series will see Sarah Parish and Mark Heap reprise their roles as no nonsense Superintendent Julie Spry and benign Superintendent Bob Weekes.  Joining them will be Chief Superintendent Cunningham (Colin McFarlane), anal Head of Admin Melanie (Rebecca Humphries) ever-angry police trainer Daz (Ricky Champ) and the returning police trainees themselves, officious Afia (Halema Hussain), wannabe actor Dev (Abdul Sessay), ‘prune in the nest’ Paul (Jamie Bisping) and reluctant wise owl Geeta (Sukh Kaur Ojla).

The second series will also see the arrival of two new police trainees in the shape of motormouth Danni (Madelyn Smedley) and the enigmatic Connor (Kerr Logan). 

With its distinctive humour and fast-paced storytelling the new series will see Paul grapple with being a ‘double prune’, Superintendents Weekes and Spry battle to save their jobs being axed by the increasingly eccentric Chief Super Cunningham, Daz’s anger management course leads to an unexpected liaison, a trainee’s wedding and a cat and mouse rooftop chase.

ITV’s Head of Comedy, Nana Hughes said “We are absolutely thrilled to bring back the attention-grabbing Piglets for a second series on ITV.”

Producer for Monicker Pictures, Victoria Pile said “We’re delighted ITV have given us the chance to explore the latest antics of our talented would-be cops!"

Series 1 Reviews

HEAT (4 out of 5 stars)

“It’s an absolute hoot”

The Guardian

“Quirky gag-a-minute comedy”

Daily Telegraph

“What a treat, instead of another Saturday night spent trawling through TV channels that are full of repeats, there’s a hilariously silly new primetime British sitcom to get stuck into”

Closer

“Sarah Parish is clearly having the time of her life as formidable, plain-speaking Superintendent Julie Spry”

TV Times (5 out of 5 stars)

“Piglets is a comedy that really isn’t trying to be something else and is a real breath of fresh air, it’s superb”

Piglets is written by Victoria Pile, Robert Harley, James Henry, Omar Khan, Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling.

The series will be directed by Sam Leifer and Victoria Pile, produced by Victoria Pile, with executive producers Caroline Leddy, Robert Harley and Sam Leifer.

Piglets is produced in association with, and distributed internationally by ITV Studios.