Creators of ‘wonderful’ BAFTA-recognised free to stream show tease ‘even messier’ second season

Showrunners Kyla Harris and Lee Getty person previewed an adjacent messier follow-up play to their acclaimed comedy-drama series, We Might Regret This.

The six-part bid aired connected BBC Two this August and follows a Canadian tetraplegic pistillate named Freya (played by Harris) who moves to the UK to unrecorded with her spouse Abe (Darren Boyd

However, their narration is analyzable erstwhile Freya’s champion person Jo (Elena Saurel) becomes her caller idiosyncratic adjunct and begins a messy narration with Abe’s lad Levi (Edward Bluemel) successful the midst of his separation from woman Jane (Sally Phillips).

Harris and Getty some joined the 2024 cohort for the BAFTA Breakthrough programme, supported by Netflix, and were thrilled with the leg-up it volition springiness them successful the UK movie and TV industry.

“We some person projects that we enactment connected unneurotic and besides individually truthful I think, hopefully, it volition conscionable fortify our relationships wrong the movie and TV assemblage and industry,” Harris told Screen Time.

We Might Regret This drew captious acclaim upon its archetypal release, including from The Guardian who called it “wonderful, witty TV that is wholly liberating to watch.”

One of the astir cathartic moments of the bid happens erstwhile Freya receives her caller powerfulness chair, which Harris reveals reflected implicit a decennary of existent and analyzable feelings.

“It was fundamentally 10-15 years of emotions condensed into 1 episode,” she explained.

“So, I deliberation we besides conscionable truly hoped that radical would consciousness similar it would beryllium OK to emotion a mobility assistance and privation a mobility aid.

“I ever accidental there’s nary existent quality betwixt a bicycle and a wheelchair, our nine conscionable places the stigma connected a wheelchair and not a bicycle, and that’s what radical request to get their heads wrapped around.”

Fans of We Might Regret This’ archetypal play were thrilled to find retired that the BBC has commissioned not conscionable 1 but 2 follow-up outings earlier this year.

With specified an unconventional household dynamic to play astir with, Getty promised the play has lone conscionable begun to ramp up.

“We can’t truly archer you thing specific, besides we person to support the state to inactive carve it out,” she teased.

“But we emotion to play with the messiness of those relationships and we’ve lone conscionable started.

“When a lad and begetter are dating 2 champion friends there’s a batch of complicated, weird, awkward conversations and situations they tin get into.”

While Abe, Jane and Levi’s chaotic household beingness provides overmuch of the show’s laughs, Getty is besides adamant the adjacent 2 seasons absorption connected Freya’s experiences to an adjacent greater degree.

“We besides truly privation to marque it arsenic Freya-centric arsenic possible,” she said. “As overmuch from her position and exploring arsenic galore topics and experiences and each the relationships from her perspective.

“Even though it’s ever going to beryllium an ensemble it should besides truly thoroughly research Freya’s experiences. So we’re refocusing and reconfiguring.”

All six episodes are escaped to watercourse close now, truthful marque definite you drawback up connected this riveting caller comedy-drama earlier the communicative continues.

We Might Regret This is disposable to ticker connected BBC iPlayer.

The afloat BAFTA Breakthrough 2024 cohort is arsenic follows:

UK BREAKTHROUGHS (21):

● Alice Russell, Director - If the Streets Were connected Fire

● Beth Park, Lead Performance Director - Black Myth: Wukong

● Clair Titley, Director - The Contestant

● Cobbie Yates, Costume Designer - Layla

● Daf James, Creator/Writer/Executive Producer/Musical Director - Lost Boys & Fairies

● Fred Hoffman, Art Director - Paper Trail

● Georgina Hurcombe, Creator/Producer/Director - Pop Paper City

● Harry Gilbert, Casting Director - G’wed

● Jennifer English, Performer - Baldur’s Gate 3

● Kyla Harris*, Lead Performer/Co-Creator/Co-Writer/Associate Producer - We Might Regret This

● Lauren Sequeira, Creator/Writer/Executive Producer - Domino Day

● Lee Getty*, Co-Creator/Co-Writer/Associate Producer - We Might Regret This

● Loran Dunn, Producer - Hoard

● Luna Carmoon, Writer/Director - Hoard

● Luned Tonderai, Series Director - Miriam: Death Of A Reality Star

● Mawaan Rizwan, Performer/Writer/Creator/Executive Producer - Juice

● Otto Baxter, Writer/Director/Performer - The Puppet Asylum

● Poulomi Basu, Creator/Director/Writer/Art Director - MAYA: The Birth of a Superhero

● Rochelle Newman, Producer - White Nanny Black Child

● Shahnaz Dulaimy, Editor - Top Boy

● Sophie Knowles, Lead Artist – Viewfinder

*applied arsenic a team

US BREAKTHROUGHS (13):

● Angela Walker Patton**, Director - Daughters

● Elaine Gómez, Creative Director - Blink Land

● Erica Tremblay, Writer/Director - Fancy Dance

● Hanna Park, Editor - Bottoms

● Jih-E Peng, Cinematographer - Girls Will Be Girls

● Joy Ngiaw, Composer - WondLa

● Juliana Hoffpauir, Costume Designer - Hit Man

● Karrie Shirou Shao, Game Writer/Lead Designer - Pacific Drive

● Nafisa Kaptownwala, Casting Director - Dìdi

● Natalie Rae**, Director - Daughters

● Nava Mau, Performer - Baby Reindeer

● Nicole He, Creative Director - The Crush House

● Sean Wang, Writer/Director - Dìdi

**applied arsenic a team

INDIA BREAKTHROUGHS (9):

● Abhinav Chokhavatia, Game Producer - Down and Out

● Christo Tomy, Director - Curry and Cyanide: The Jolly Joseph Case

● Deepa Bhatia, Writer/Director/Producer - First Act

● Dhiman Karmakar, Sound Designer/Production Sound Mixer - Amar Singh Chamkila

● Jaydeep Sarkar, Showrunner/Series Director/Executive Producer - Rainbow Rishta

● Monisha Thyagarajan, Series Producer - The Hunt for Veerappan

● Neeraj Kumar, Producer/Lead Developer - Artifice: War Tactics

● Sindhu Sreenivasa Murthy, Writer/Director/Performer - Aachar & Co.

● Varun Grover, Writer/Director - All India Rank