Award-winning series, Staged, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant is returning for a third series. The Lockdown show, which premiered in 2020, will return to screens on Britbox UK on Thursday, November 24. There will be six new half-hour episodes.
Staged's first series saw David and Michael play fictionalised versions of themselves, trying to rehearse a play during lockdown via videoconference Zoom, while underconfident director, Simon Evans, struggles to keep control of the production. A follow-up series, which was released in 2021, saw the "real" David and Michael after the success of the first series of Staged.
A synopsis reveals: "In the third series, things have returned to normal for David and Michael and they have moved on from lockdown and returned to their everyday working life, while Simon’s career remains stagnant. His phone does ring, but only to ask if he can get David and Michael back together; and they’ve made it clear they want nothing more to do with him.
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"But Christmas is approaching, and Simon hopes the warmth of the season might soften them to the idea of a radio version of a Christmas classic…but that’s as far as Simon’s plan has got!"
Staged is the brain child of Simon Evans (who also plays a fictional version of himself in the series) and Phin Glynn. Michael and David's real life partners, Georgia Tennant and Anna Lundberg, star alongside Simon's sister, Lucy Eaton.
Staged: Series 1 and 2 are available to watch on BBC iPlayer and Britbox UK. The third series will release exclusively on Britbox UK on Thursday, November 24. For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter here.
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