
FX keeps on breeding.
The cabler has renewed Breeders for Season 2, Cancelled Soon TV has confirmed.
Breeders returns for a second series
Critically acclaimed Sky original starring Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard
Sky original Breeders, the honest and uncompromising comedy about the challenges of parenthood, starring Martin Freeman (Fargo, Sherlock, Black Panther) and Daisy Haggard (Back To Life, Episodes, Black Mirror), has been renewed for a second series. The acclaimed first series is currently available on demand on Sky One and on streaming service NOW TV.
Sky original Breeders is produced by Avalon and FX Productions for Sky and FX Networks. The first series has gained widespread critical acclaim:
“beyond comedy and towards something rare…Writers Simon Blackwell, Chris Addison and Freeman himself have given us not only a couple we can honestly believe in but also a drama for modern times” The Observer
“Smart, spiky and hilarious” – ???? Radio Times
“Freeman and Haggard immediately gel as a finely tuned double act playing off each other with exquisite timing.” – ????” Mail on Sunday
“A hilariously no-holds-barred look at the real challenges of parenting in the contemporary world… beautifully observed and very funny – ?????.” Heat Magazine
Breeders is one of the latest in a run of original comedies launching on Sky One with audiences of more than one million – including Avenue 5 (Starring Hugh Laurie), Intelligence (with Nick Mohammed and David Schwimmer), Hitmen (Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins) and Code 404 (Daniel Mays, Stephen Graham and Anna Maxwell Martin).
Academy Award(R)-nominee and double Emmy(R) Award-winner Simon Blackwell served as showrunner and created the series with double Emmy Award and Directors Guild of America Award winner Chris Addison and Emmy and BAFTA(R)-winning Martin Freeman. Executive producers are Blackwell, Addison, Freeman, Richard Allen-Turner, Rob Aslett, David Martin, Jon Thoday, Toby Welch and Michael Wiggs. Ben Palmer is co-executive producer. Tilusha Ghelani, Sky commissioning editor, will executive produce for Sky.
Jon Mountague, Director of Comedy, Sky Studios, said: “With scripts of this calibre, hilarity and honesty, and a cast lead by the uniquely relatable Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard, it’s no surprise Breeders struck such a huge chord with viewers. Hats off to Simon Blackwell, Chris Addison and the team – we can’t wait to give birth to a second series.”
Martin Freeman commented: “So pleased we get another go at Breeders. I reckon the next one will be even better. It’s such a pleasure working with this team… we’ll see you all soon. Well, not soon. But at some point, honest.”
Chris Addison said: “We’re absolutely thrilled that Sky and FX have decided to let us torture Paul and Ally a bit more with another season of parenting trauma. That’s entirely because we’ve got more of the story we’re excited to tell and definitely not just because it’s basically free therapy for us. I flatly deny that.”
Simon Blackwell added: “It was a thrill to be able to make the first season of Breeders – Sky, FX, our production team, crew and amazing cast made it a fantastic creative experience. So to be able to explore even more parental struggles in series 2 is the icing on a cake that we’ve checked carefully for any possible trace of peanuts.”
In Breeders, Martin Freeman stars as Paul, a caring father discovering he’s not quite the man he thought he was. His partner in this impossibly steep parental climb is Ally (Daisy Haggard), who runs a recording studio, makes Paul laugh and has the ability to read a story to their children while she’s technically asleep.
In the first series, Paul and Ally are juggling fulltime careers, aging parents, a mortgage, upheavals in their relationship and the unenviable curveballs of parenting their young children, Luke (George Wakeman) and Ava (Jayda Eyles). When Ally’s estranged father Michael (Michael McKean) appears on their doorstep, the family essentially takes on a third child, but this one comes with baggage and opinions. Paul’s own parents, Jackie (Joanna Bacon) and Jim (Alun Armstrong), are on hand to help out, but their generation does parenting a little differently… .
Breeders series one critical acclaim:
“beyond comedy and towards something rare…Writers Simon Blackwell, Chris Addison and Freeman himself have given us not only a couple we can honestly believe in but also a drama for modern times” Euan Ferguson, The Observer
“terrific: dark, fresh, brutal, funny… Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison have managed the near-impossible by creating a parenting comedy that is not twee and makes the tired tropes of sleep deprivation and school-catchment obsession funny.” ???? Carol Midgley, The Times
“crafted to perfection, Blackwell supplies a steady stream of laugh-out-loud lines and Freeman and Haggard immediately gel as a finely tuned double act playing off each other with exquisite timing” ???? Mark Wareham, Mail On Sunday
“Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard excel in parenting sitcom with bite… Smart, spiky and hilarious” ???? Morgan Jeffery, Radio Times
“For Breeders to deal with darker topics, including postnatal depression and what Blackwell calls “grief sex”, it adopts the knife-edge tone that defines the best modern TV comedy: able to nest real, wrenching drama into outlandish scenarios and vice versa, rather than offering viewers a predictable series of set-ups and positive punchlines” Tom Faber, Financial Times
“The parent-torment sitcom Breeders, now on episode three, ‘No Accident’, is beginning to emulsify nicely… Breeders whizzes by, all zingers and howlers.” ???? David Sexton, Evening Standard
“Refreshingly truthful parenting comedy” ???? Ian Hyland, The Mirror
“a hilariously no-holds-barred look at the real challenges of parenting in the contemporary world… a brilliantly shocking opening that sets the tone for a show, which is beautifully observed and very funny” ????? Boyd Hilton, Heat Magazine
“honest and uncompromising comedy pulling no punches as it explores the pressures of raising a family. Millions of mums and dads across Britain will sympathise… prepare for laughs, tears and plenty of swearing” ???? Sean Marland, TV Times Magazine
“a corker of an introduction… uncompromising but hilarious” ????? Mike Ward, Daily Star
“Freeman and Daisy Haggard, who plays Paul’s wife, Ally, are excellent as the couple whose united front cracks as sleep deprivation kicks in.” Victoria Segal, The Sunday Times
“When the great corona-shutdown kicks in, the Breeders crew might find they’ve made the most accidentally zeitgeisty programme of all time” Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Telegraph
“No-holds-barred ferocity… the show is fearless” James Jackson, The Times
“Welcome to the set of Breeders, a new show that takes the best ingredients of Motherland and Outnumbered – middle-class dramas about parenting – and adds a large dose of the sheer fury that it can induce… Bitingly funny” Nicole Lampert, Daily Mail
The second season of the Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard comedy-drama is set to premiere in 2021.
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About Breeders TV Show
"Breeders" Renewed for Season Three on FX
Comedy Starring Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard Set to Return in 2022
Recently Completed Second Season Available to Stream on FX on Hulu
LOS ANGELES, May 27, 2021 - Breeders, the comedy series that explores the challenges of modern parenting, has been renewed for a third season on FX, it was announced today by Nick Grad, President, Original Programming, FX Entertainment. The series starring Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard, which recently completed its second season, is set to return next year.
"Through two seasons, we've watched 'Paul,' 'Ally' and their children grow as a family in ways that are reassuring and sometimes concerning," said Grad. "Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard are brilliant as the flawed but devoted parents and we are glad that they, along with Simon Blackwell, Chris Addison and the rest of the creative team and cast, are bringing the series back for a third season that will take us along for the next stage in this family's journey."
Martin Freeman commented: "I'm very happy to get to do another season of the show. We're delighted that FX is with us in spending time with the Worsleys, and hopefully let the audience see that, once again, no, they're not alone."
Simon Blackwell added: "Delighted that we've got three seasons. One more and it's a pizza. This is such a superb team to work with, and it's a pleasure and a privilege to make the show. I can't wait to see what terrible and brilliant but let's face it mainly terrible things will happen to the Worsley family in the next 10 episodes."
Daisy Haggard said: "I'm so excited to get to tell another chapter of this story. It's such a privilege to be in such fine company and such masterful hands!!"
Chris Addison said: "Apart from the sheer joy of working with this incredible team, very little gives us more pleasure than putting Paul and Ally through the wringer, so we're thrilled that FX have decided to give us this shiny new third wringer to put them through. I'm intrigued to see what shape they come out the other side."
Jon Thoday, Executive Producer at Avalon, said: "We're delighted with FX's commitment to Breeders, whose support for this exciting show has been excellent."
Breeders explores the parental paradox that you'd happily die for your children, but quite often also want to kill them.
In season two, now available to stream on FX on Hulu, "Luke" (Alex Eastwood) is now 13 years old and "Ava" (Eve Prenelle) is 10, serving up brand new parenting challenges for "Paul" (Martin Freeman) and "Ally" (Daisy Haggard). Luke's increasing anxiety and Ava's growing independence add some new and uncharted complications into the existing chaotic mix of stretched resources, lack of time and the fine art of winging it while looking like you know what you're doing. Paul's parents, "Jackie" (Joanna Bacon) and "Jim" (Alun Armstrong) are older too, as is Ally's mother "Leah" (Stella Gonet), leading Paul and Ally to find that they now have to parent the generation above them as well as the generation below. And at the center of all this is Paul and Ally's relationship. Can they survive the new pressures as they just-about survived the old ones? Or is there a finite number of ropes you can find yourself at the end of?
Breeders is produced by Avalon (Starstruck, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Everything's Gonna Be Okay, Flatbush Misdemeanors) and FX Productions for FX Networks and Sky Originals. Academy Award(R)-nominee and double Emmy(R) Award-winner Simon Blackwell is showrunner. Breeders is created by Blackwell, double Emmy Award and Directors Guild of America Award winner Chris Addison and Emmy and BAFTA(R)-winning Martin Freeman, who also stars alongside Daisy Haggard. Executive producers are Blackwell, Addison, Freeman, Richard Allen-Turner, Rob Aslett, David Martin, Jon Thoday, Toby Welch and Michael Wiggs. Ben Palmer is co-executive producer.
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