BREAKING: ITV's Piglets given second series despite being 'absolutely slammed' by critics

Piglets connected ITV sees Sarah Parish and Mark Heap play superintendents astatine a fictional constabulary grooming assemblage but, erstwhile the archetypal bid aired successful July, the quirky drama was panned

ITV sitcom Piglets has been commissioned for a 2nd bid - contempt being criticised this year.

The Police Federation adjacent blasted Piglets arsenic "highly offensive" earlier its merchandise successful July, aft which professional panned the programmne for being outdated and utilizing stereotypes. Watchdog Ofsted received much than 100 complaints aft the archetypal occurrence alone.

But ITV are sticking with the show, which stars Sarah Parish and Mark Heap, and the greenish airy has been fixed for a 2nd series, it is understood.

Ricky Champ, who plays Daz successful it, said connected the Reading Between The Lines podcast: "Piglets has been commissioned for bid two. It’s crazy, due to the fact that we got perfectly slammed. The archetypal bid came retired and it was met with implicit venom – crossed the board."

And the determination adjacent amazed Champ himself. The 44-year-old actor, from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, continued: "Immediately, I thought, ‘That’s that done’. But it got bully figures and ITV evidently noticed that."

Among the fewer affirmative reviews, 1 professional compared Piglets to fashionable Channel 4 sitcom Green Wing, which was acceptable successful a hospital. Piglets's writers each antecedently collaborated connected Green Wing, which ran for 2 seasons betwixt 2004 and 2006.

Piglets is astir a fictional constabulary grooming assemblage successful London. Heap, besides successful Green Wing and Friday Night Dinner, portrays Superintendent Bob Weekes, a bumbling tutor for the caller recruits.

Before the wacky sitcom aired, much-loved Heap, 67, said: "Bob is the bully bull to Julie’s (Sarah Parish's character) atrocious cop; their narration is similar a long, bushed matrimony - they’re conscionable astir tolerating each other's annoyances - but it’s 1 that works, until it doesn’t. Bob doesn’t person immoderate skills and floats successful the slipstream of Julie - but helium likes to consciousness important.

"Bob has a emotion interest, but he’s not alert of it. He’s wholly oblivious to however Melanie feels, bless him. Who knows wherever that narration is going to go?"