E4 orders third series

E4’s teen sitcom The Inbetweeners is to return for another series.

The channel has commissioned a third run of the award-winning show, starring Simon Bird and Joe Thomas, to air next year.

Angela Jain, the head of E4, said the show had ‘some of the most beautifully crafted puerile and funny jokes ever seen on British television but also moments of crushing heartbreak, which are all testament to the brilliance of the writing and acting’.

The second series ended in May this year.

Published: 4 Aug 2009