Not long now! Ellie & Natasia FINALLY returning
Second series finally in the can – four years after the first
The second series of Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou's BBC sketch show is finally set to air this year – three years after it was originally announced.
Shooting on Ellie & Natasia recently wrapped, with Asim Chaudhry among those guest starring in the upcoming episodes.
White and director Paul Taylor, who has recently been helming Saturday Night Live UK, were among those to post pictures from the set on Instagram.
Demetriou's brother Jamie greeted the posts by writing '2 of the most bonkers chicks on Earth', SNL's Al Nash added 'so exciting!', while Sara Pascoe enthused: 'FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS'.
Harry Hill, executive producer of the first series, which aired four years ago – and was itself three-and-a-half years after the pilot – curtly observed 'about time'.
The BBC originally announced Ellie & Natasia's recommission and its move from BBC Three to BBC Two in 2023. It is believed that the sketch show's return has been postponed because of Demetriou’s North American filming commitments.
Production on the final series of FX's vampire comedy What We Do In The Shadows, in which she starred alongside fellow British comics Matt Berry and Kayvan Novak, was completed in Toronto in May, 2024.
She has since shot the comedy film Close Personal Friends, about a couple who become friends with a celebrity couple, alongside Brie Larson, Lily Collins, Jack Quaid and Henry Golding. The Amazon feature, which also co-stars Cardinal Burns' Dustin Demri-Burns and stand-up Patti Harrison, is currently in post-production.
Six more 15-minute episodes of Ellie & Natasia have been filmed. The series is made by CPL Productions, whose credits include Rob And Romesh Vs and A League Of Their Own.
Speaking when the second series was announced, White and Demetriou said in a statement: ‘When the BBC came crawling on their knees begging us for a Series 2 we didn't have it in our hearts to say no.
'It is our pleasure to provide our stunning and excellent sketches and characters to help out the darling little BBC – it's God's work and someone has to do it."
Series one was shortlisted for a Rose d'Or Award and earned Demetriou a Bafta nomination for her performance.
The Guardian praised the show as 'immense fun watching as their brains will jump in every direction' and hailed the 'strong seam of feminist fury running through some of White and Demetriou's gags'.
In a five-star review, The Independent called the pair 'very funny in a Hogarth-and-Gillray-for-our-grotesque-times kind of way', while Chortle, in a four-star review, said: 'The script is gag-heavy, packed with verbal and visual punchlines that keep the 15-minute episodes rattling along.'
Chortle understands that the BBC is yet to set an exact broadcast date for the new episodes.
White and Demetriou recently made cameos in the second series of Last One Laughing UK, appearing as intimacy coordinators and making Romesh Ranganathan visibly uncomfortable.
- by Jay Richardson
Published: 5 Jun 2026
