Gavin and Stacey fans were thrilled with the announcement earlier this month that the beloved sitcom is set to return for a festive special this year.
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K.J. Yossman Abi Morgan’s compulsive legal drama “The Split” is set to return for a two-part special. “The Split” is focused on high-powered divorce attorney Hannah Defoe and her family.
Picking up two years after Season 3 left off – in which Hannah was going through her own divorce — audiences will reunite with the formidable lawyer in Spain, where she’s celebrating a wedding along with the rest of her family. “Set across one sun-soaked weekend, ‘The Split’ will encompass break-ups, reunions and like all good weddings, plenty of romance,” promises the logline. “As the sun rises over the glorious Spanish countryside, Hannah is compelled to banish the ghosts of her past and open herself up to the possibility of love again.
Can she find the courage to take the leap into a new future?” Nicola Walker will return as Hannah alongside Stephen Mangan, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay, Ian McElhinney, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Elizabeth Roberts and Alex Guersman. The cast will also be joined by a bevy of new faces, including “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” actor Toby Stephens as fellow lawyer Archie Moore. Morgan has returned to write the special, which will be directed by Giulia Gandini (“Shetland”) and produced by Jennie Fava (“The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin”).
Produced by Sister, the special will air on the BBC and its streaming platform later this year. Jane Featherstone, Lucy Dyke and Morgan executive produce while BBC Studios are distributing internationally “In a world of brutal break ups and tantalising make ups, the Defoe family are invited to a destination wedding of their own, promising all that audiences have grown to love about ‘The Split,’” said Morgan. “Problematic prenups,
.Gavin and Stacey fans were thrilled with the announcement earlier this month that the beloved sitcom is set to return for a festive special this year.
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BBC legal drama The Split is returning to our screens for a two-part special after the show came to an end in 2022 - and its welcoming a new cast member.The series stars Nicola Walker as family lawyer Hannah Defoe, navigating her high-intensity career with her complicated love life. While the drama came to a close with series three, the BBC has revealed that the Defoe family will be back for a two-part special.
The BBC confirmed the beloved sitcom Gavin and Stacey will return to screens for a 'last ever' episode. The show will be aired on Christmas Day later this year.