Boy Meets Girl to return

Stars confirm second series, even if BBC doesn't

Boy Meets Girl, the first British sitcom to revolve around a transgender character, is to return for a second series.

Stars Rebecca Root, Denise Welch and Jonny Dixon revealed the news yesterday on Twitter.

Although two of their posts were subsequently deleted, Chortle understands that a follow-up series has been ordered of the groundbreaking BBC Two sitcom.

Welch tweeted: ‘And the fab news today is… @BoyMeetsGirl_UK is getting another series!!!!’, with Root responding to the speculation about its return by adding, ‘’Yep everything you’ve heard is true!’

Both messages subsequently vanished, but the tweet from Dixon, who plays James, remains online: ‘Okay now I can tell peeps. Boy Meets Girl Season 2 is a go.’

The recommission comes as little surprise after BBC Two controller Kim Shillinglaw told the Radio Times earlier this week that ‘I would love to have more … so I would say watch this space’, while adding that she also expected W1A, Cradle to Grave and Inside Number 9 to return.

A BBC spokesman gave the official line: ‘We are having active conversations about a further series of Boy Meets Girl. It’s too early to confirm any details.’

Starring Root and Harry Hepple as new couple Judy and Leo, Boy Meets Girl initially attracted respectable ratings in the Thursday night slot after Cradle To Grave, with 1.5 million viewers for the opening episode. But that had dropped to 844,000 by the final episode last week.

Root won the Breakthrough Performance Award at last night’s Attitude Awards and critical reception for the series has been broadly positive, with the Guardian describing it as ‘warm, witty and likable’ and Root as ‘a star-in-the-making’.

However the Daily Mail felt that the series had ‘given up all pretence at being a sitcom. It’s simply an instruction manual on what to say, think and feel about sex changes’.

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