Gavin and Stacey Christmas special ‘in the works’ at BBC

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Gavin and Stacey creators James Corden and Ruth Jones will reportedly start filming a model new Christmas Special this yr.

According to Deadline, the present will come out of a five-year hiatus to begin filming the new episode over the summer season with a view to air in time for Christmas 2024.

The final episode of the sitcom was aired on Christmas Day in 2019, however viewers have lengthy been hoping that the present would possibly return and reveal the destiny of the characters after a cliffhanger ending.

Deadline stories that the episode is at the moment in growth and cameras will roll in just a few months. It is produced by Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow Productions, Jones’ Tidy Productions and Fulwell 73, which is co-owned by Corden.

The Independent has contacted representatives for Jones, Corden and the related manufacturing corporations for remark. The BBC declined to remark.

Gavin and Stacey follows a younger couple who begin their relationship over the cellphone and ultimately keep at one another’s homes. They are each from two charismatic households: one in Billericay, Essex and one in Barry Island, Wales.

The 2019 special ended with Nessa (performed by Jones) getting down on one knee to suggest to Smithy (performed by Corden). The episode cuts off earlier than we will hear his response.

Reports counsel that the majority of the principal solid will seemingly return for the special. Along with Corden and Jones, Gavin and Stacey stars Matthew Horne and Joanna Page in the titular roles, together with together with Rob Brydon taking part in Uncle Bryn, Melanie Walters as Stacey’s mom Gwen West, Julia Davis as Dawn Sutcliffe, and Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb as Gavin’s considerably overbearing mother and father.

The information comes as Gavin and Stacey stars Page and Steadman reunited on the set of This Morning, as Steadman appeared to debate her newest appearing mission.

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Steadman, who performs Gavin’s mum Pam in the sequence, admitted she would “love” to do one other special of the present however each didn’t allude to a forthcoming reboot.

In 2020, the present’s star and co-creator Jones shut down claims that the sequence would make a return to screens.

At the time, her co-star and co-creator Corden was dwelling in the US finishing his eight-year-long stint internet hosting the Late Late Show.

“There aren’t any plans to write anything,” she mentioned at the time. “Obviously James [Corden] is in America and I’m in Wales. I’m sorry not to have the ability to provide you with any excellent news.”

However, Corden left the Late Late Show in April 2023 and returned to the UK, which has prompted many Gavin and Stacey followers to invest about whether or not he would possibly need to return to the sitcom.