PIGLETS: ITV POLICE COMEDY LANDS SECOND SERIES FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH

ITV comedy Piglets has reportedly been recommissioned for a second series on following the success of its first series earlier this year.

Piglets is set in a fictional police training college and follows a newly recruited group of six very different would-be cops and the handful of key staff whose thankless task it is to knock them into some kind of shape.  

Ricky Champ told podcast Reading Between The Lines: "Piglets has been commissioned for series two. It’s crazy, because we got absolutely slammed. The first series came out and it was met with absolute venom – across the board. Immediately, I thought, ‘That’s that done’. But it got good figures and ITV obviously noticed that."

Heading up the cast in the first series are Sarah Parish and Mark Heap as no-nonsense Superintendent Julie Spry and some-nonsense Superintendent Bob Weekes, whose job it is to oversee the training of the next batch of new recruits.

Those new recruits are Steph (played by Callie Cooke), Leggo (Sam Pote), Geeta (Sukh Kaur Ojla) Afia (Halema Hussain), Dev (Abdul Sessay) and Paul (Jamie Bisping).

Working alongside Superintendents Julie Spry and Bob Weekes are Head of Admin Melanie (Rebecca Humphries) and police trainers Mike & Daz (Ukweli Roach and Ricky Champ).

The first series of Piglets is available now on ITVX.