ITV series returning for season 2 despite being labelled ‘worst sitcom ever’

A comedy bid viewers described arsenic ‘appalling and offensive’ has been recommissioned by ITV for a 2nd season.

Piglets premiered successful July and followed a recently recruited radical of six would-be cops and the cardinal unit ‘whose thankless task it was to sound them into immoderate benignant of shape’.

The six-part bid starred Sarah Parish and Mark Heap arsenic Superintendent Julie Spry and Superintendent Bob Weekes, whose occupation it was to oversee the grooming of the caller recruits.

Even earlier it deed screens, the bid was slammed for its title, with the Police Federation, calling it ‘disgusting’ and ‘highly offensive’.

Meanwhile viewers said it was ‘insulting’, ‘disgusting’ and adjacent ‘diabolical’.

Things didn’t fare overmuch amended erstwhile the episodes really aired, with 1 idiosyncratic going truthful acold arsenic to accidental it was ‘the worst sitcom to ever look connected British TV screens’.

Despite this all, the amusement volition beryllium returning.

Ricky Champ, who played Sergeant Daz Black, has revealed ITV are consenting to springiness the bid different go, and filming volition get underway adjacent year.

‘Piglets has been commissioned for bid two. It’s crazy, due to the fact that we got perfectly slammed,’ helium said.

‘The archetypal bid came retired and it was met with implicit venom – crossed the board.

‘Immediately, I thought, “That’s that done”. But it got bully figures and ITV evidently noticed that,’ helium added erstwhile speaking connected the Reading Between The Lines podcast.

Earlier this twelvemonth Tiffany Lynch, Acting National Chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales said the rubric of the amusement was ‘inflammatory against a scenery of rising threats and unit against officers’ and was putting officers ‘at further hazard for viewing numbers

Their sentiment was echoed by members of the nationalist arsenic well, with Ofcom aboriginal reporting it had received 106 complaints.

However, ITV’s caput of drama Nana Hughes said determination were nary plans to alteration the sanction and that it was not meant to origin offence.

Metro.co.uk has contacted ITV for comment.

Piglets is streaming connected ITVX.

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