Fleabag star Sian Clifford has confirmed that the acclaimed series will end after the current second series.
The actress, who appears as the older sister of the title character (played by show creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge) told BBC Breakfast that “there will not be a third series” of the acerbic comedy.
“This is it,” she said on Friday's show.
“I’ve described it online as this beautiful perfect ending, and I think it is but I think what it’s closer to is poetry.
“I think people will accept that this is the end when they see it because I think it is complete. I think the story is complete.”
Based on Waller-Bridge’s one-woman play which debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, the hit show first aired on BBC Three in 2016.
The writer stars as the darkly witty title character, known only as Fleabag, who is coming to terms with the death of her mother and best friend, with Clifford playing her more uptight sister Claire.
Olivia Colman plays the pair’s emotionally manipulative godmother – who is soon to become their stepmother.
The second series debuted on the BBC in March, with Andrew Scott joining the cast as the family’s priest.
Waller-Bridge, who also served as the show-runner on Killing Eve, previously said that she initially wasn’t keen to revisit the character for a second run.
“I decided not to do a second season, absolutely for sure, and I had great pride in my artistic integrity for not coming back,” she said during a panel at the Television Critics Association press tour.
“And then I had the idea for the second [series] and did that again. And I’ve now decided that there should absolutely not be a third.
“I may be surprised again, I don’t know. I had doubts all the way through, as I always do, about whether or not it’s the right story to tell, but it’s something driving it for this character all the time. And I felt driven again by her.”
The final episode of Fleabag will air on April 8.
