Phoebe Waller-Bridge says fans can expect more Fleabag on television screens in 2018 (Picture: BBC Three)

Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge has confirmed the comedy will be back for a second series – just there’s going to be a bit of a wait.

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After the critically praised first season in July 2016, the 31-year-old told Radio Times she expects to roll cameras later this year in November, with a broadcast date roughly set for 2018.

However, Waller-Bridge has also said she’d only go ahead with a follow up series off the back of a strong idea, as well as the chance to work with the same creative team.

‘I think I have one. We are all trying to make it work and have the same team back,’ she said.


The first series of Fleabag aired on BBC Three in 2016 (Picture: BBC Three)

Adapted from her award-winning Edinburgh Fringe play, series one of Fleabag starred Waller-Bridge as an angry cash-strapped and grief-riddled young woman coming to terms with a recent tragedy in London.



The six-part series starred Olivia Colman, Bill Paterson, Poldark’s Hugh Skinner and US comedian Brett Gelman.

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During a stage revival of Fleabag at London’s Soho Theatre back in October, Waller-Bridge told Radio Times she’d always planned a second TV series of Fleabag.

‘We cracked it open so that she would be able to have a life beyond it and also there are so many more stories and story strands and character strands come out of this series,’ she said.

In February, Waller-Bridge was coy about her casting as a droid in the Han Solo Star Wars spin-off, telling Metro.co.uk at the NME Awards she knew ‘absolutely nothing’.

Of course it didn’t take long for the cat to be let out of the bag, with the actress featuring in a cast and crew image inside the Millenium Falcon alongside Woody Harrelson, director Phil Lord, Emilia Clarke, Alden Ehrenreich, director Chris Miller, Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, and Donald Glover.

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Plot details have revealed the anthology film – also scheduled alongside Fleabag series two for a 2018 release – would chart the adventures of a young Han Solo, Chewbacca and his buddy Lando Calrissian.

Metro.co.uk has reached out to BBC Three for further comment on the new series of Fleabag.

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