One of the best British comedies is ending after 8 years

A BBC drama is acceptable to travel to an extremity aft its upcoming 5th season.

First premiering successful 2017, Man Like Mobeen was created by Guz Khan and Andy Milligan.

Set successful the Small Heath country of Birmingham, the bid stars Guz arsenic Mobeen, a erstwhile cause trader who present tries to unrecorded a bully beingness arsenic a Muslim portion raising his younger sister Aqsa successful the lack of their parents and spending clip with his friends Nate and Eight.

However, it’s present been announced the amusement is ending.

Guz, who has besides appeared successful Taskmaster, Our Flag Means Death and The Gentlemen, confirmed the 5th and last bid of the BBC Three drama deed would aerial adjacent year.

The comedian, histrion and writer joked he’d only decided to constitute different play to halt fans bugging him aft the past ended connected the cliffhanger of Mobeen being attacked successful prison.

‘I can’t adjacent store astatine Aldi without idiosyncratic popping retired from down the breadstuff aisle and asking maine erstwhile there’s going to beryllium much Man Like Mobeen,’ the 38-year-old said.

‘So, for you, and lone for you, here’s one, final, precise last, ne'er to beryllium done again play of Man Like Mobeen.

‘Please don’t marque maine marque immoderate more, I got loads of kids to rise and that.’

Fans of the amusement person antecedently labelled it ‘highly underrated’.

The synopsis for the six-part play has teased that Mobeen is present ‘back connected the extracurricular and reunited with the pack successful Small Heath, earlier embarking connected an epic escapade overseas, if helium tin get his hands connected a level summons and a fake passport that is’.

The BBC’s manager of drama Jon Petrie said the amusement had been a ‘comedy juggernaut’ for the transmission and that ‘saying goodbye is going to beryllium pugnacious for everyone’.

‘But arsenic overmuch arsenic we don’t privation to, we’ve got to beryllium grown-ups and judge it’s the end. Guz Khan and Andy Milligan person crafted thing genuinely peculiar successful these last scripts, and we’re going retired with a bang… adjacent if keeping a consecutive look volition beryllium a challenge,’ helium said.

‘It’s the past series, but it’s bigger and funnier than ever.’

Last twelvemonth Guz admitted the bid precise astir didn’t instrumentality for a 4th play aft a three-year hiatus.

‘I was precise overmuch done erstwhile we finished the past series,’ helium told the Standard.

‘I was like, “This communicative has served its purpose”.’ Yet arsenic clip went by, friends and acquaintances experienced definite things that made him deliberation determination was much to say.’

Man Like Mobeen is streaming connected BBC iPlayer.

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