Critically acclaimed Sky original starring Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard
Sky original Breeders, the honest and uncompromising comedy about the challenges of parenthood, starring Martin Freeman (Fargo, Sherlock, Black Panther) and Daisy Haggard (Back To Life, Episodes, Black Mirror), has been renewed for a second series. The acclaimed first series is currently available on demand on Sky One and on streaming service NOW TV.
Sky original Breeders is produced by Avalon and FX Productions for Sky and FX Networks. The first series has gained widespread critical acclaim:
beyond comedy and towards something rare...Writers Simon Blackwell, Chris Addison and Freeman himself have given us not only a couple we can honestly believe in but also a drama for modern times The Observer
Smart, spiky and hilarious - Radio Times
Freeman and Haggard immediately gel as a finely tuned double act playing off each other with exquisite timing. - Mail on Sunday
A hilariously no-holds-barred look at the real challenges of parenting in the contemporary world... beautifully observed and very funny - . Heat Magazine
Breeders is one of the latest in a run of original comedies launching on Sky One with audiences of more than one million - including Avenue 5 (Starring Hugh Laurie), Intelligence (with Nick Mohammed and David Schwimmer), Hitmen (Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins) and Code 404 (Daniel Mays, Stephen Graham and Anna Maxwell Martin).
Academy Award -nominee and double Emmy Award-winner Simon Blackwell served as showrunner and created the series with double Emmy Award and Directors Guild of America Award winner Chris Addison and Emmy and BAFTA -winning Martin Freeman. Executive producers are Blackwell, Addison, Freeman, Richard Allen-Turner, Rob Aslett, David Martin, Jon Thoday, Toby Welch and Michael Wiggs. Ben Palmer is co-executive producer. Tilusha Ghelani, Sky commissioning editor, will executive produce for Sky.
Jon Mountague, Director of Comedy, Sky Studios, said: With scripts of this calibre, hilarity and honesty, and a cast lead by the uniquely relatable Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard, it's no surprise Breeders struck such a huge chord with viewers. Hats off to Simon Blackwell, Chris Addison and the team - we can't wait to give birth to a second series.
Martin Freeman commented: So pleased we get another go at Breeders. I reckon the next one will be even better. It's such a pleasure working with this team... we'll see you all soon. Well, not soon. But at some point, honest.
Chris Addison said: We're absolutely thrilled that Sky and FX have decided to let us torture Paul and Ally a bit more with another season of parenting trauma. That's entirely because we've got more of the story we're excited to tell and definitely not just because it's basically free therapy for us. I flatly deny that."
Simon Blackwell added: "It was a thrill to be able to make the first season of Breeders - Sky, FX, our production team, crew and amazing cast made it a fantastic creative experience. So to be able to explore even more parental struggles in series 2 is the icing on a cake that weve checked carefully for any possible trace of peanuts."
In Breeders, Martin Freeman stars as Paul, a caring father discovering he's not quite the man he thought he was. His partner in this impossibly steep parental climb is Ally (Daisy Haggard), who runs a recording studio, makes Paul laugh and has the ability to read a story to their children while shes technically asleep.
In the first series, Paul and Ally are juggling fulltime careers, aging parents, a mortgage, upheavals in their relationship and the unenviable curveballs of parenting their young children, Luke (George Wakeman) and Ava (Jayda Eyles). When Ally's estranged father Michael (Michael McKean) appears on their doorstep, the family essentially takes on a third child, but this one comes with baggage and opinions. Paul's own parents, Jackie (Joanna Bacon) and Jim (Alun Armstrong), are on hand to help out, but their generation does parenting a little differently .
For more information please contact:
Sky: Dom Collett
0207 032 4892
Dominic.Collett@sky.co.uk
Note To Editors:
Breeders series one critical acclaim:
beyond comedy and towards something rare...Writers Simon Blackwell, Chris Addison and Freeman himself have given us not only a couple we can honestly believe in but also a drama for modern times Euan Ferguson, The Observer
terrific: dark, fresh, brutal, funny Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison have managed the near-impossible by creating a parenting comedy that is not twee and makes the tired tropes of sleep deprivation and school-catchment obsession funny. Carol Midgley, The Times
crafted to perfection, Blackwell supplies a steady stream of laugh-out-loud lines and Freeman and Haggard immediately gel as a finely tuned double act playing off each other with exquisite timing Mark Wareham, Mail On Sunday
Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard excel in parenting sitcom with bite Smart, spiky and hilarious Morgan Jeffery, Radio Times
For Breeders to deal with darker topics, including postnatal depression and what Blackwell calls grief sex , it adopts the knife-edge tone that defines the best modern TV comedy: able to nest real, wrenching drama into outlandish scenarios and vice versa, rather than offering viewers a predictable series of set-ups and positive punchlines Tom Faber, Financial Times
The parent-torment sitcom Breeders, now on episode three, No Accident', is beginning to emulsify nicely Breeders whizzes by, all zingers and howlers. David Sexton, Evening Standard
Refreshingly truthful parenting comedy Ian Hyland, The Mirror
a hilariously no-holds-barred look at the real challenges of parenting in the contemporary world a brilliant
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Critically acclaimed Sky original starring Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard
