Diane Morgan has started filming the third series of ‘Mandy’.
Diane Morgan is making a new series of Mandy
The ‘Motherland’ star is working on a new season of her hit BBC comedy series - which she writes and directs as well as playing the titular role - as the beloved character battles her own experiences of the cost of living crisis with some poorly paid gigs alongside returning faces like Roger Sloman, 77, Alastair Green, 52, Michael Spicer, 46, Jackie Clune, 57, and Yuriko Kotani, 42.
In a statement of sorts, the 48-year-old actress joked: “All the quotes used in TV Press releases like this are written by Chat GPT now. This one certainly is.
"When you’re writing and directing and performing in something you can’t waste time thinking of some pointless quote just to show off.
"No one reads beyond the first words anyway; because they just repetitively say how thrilled and excited everyone is. No one’s reading this now, are they? Only a fool would do that. Come on, there must be a book you could be reading now instead of this nonsense.”
Meanwhile, the BBC gushed that they were “thrilled and excited” to be working with Diane again on the show which will include new stars Beverley Callard, 66, Nathan Foad, 30, and Robbie Gee, 53.
Josh Cole, the BBC’s Head of Comedy, added: “We are thrilled and excited to be returning to Mandy with the peerless Diane Morgan.”
Diane - who shot to fame playing the comedy character Philomena Cunk in ‘Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe’ - was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bolton and spilt about her battle to success.
She told the audience: “Ladies and gentlemen, I should not be here today. I shouldn’t. There’s been a dreadful mistake. I got a G in maths. A G! But I thank you for your generosity.
“Thirty years ago just outside this building, I bumped into Maxine Peake who is also a Boltonian and we had met two weeks earlier when we were both auditioning to get into Manchester Polytechnic for the acting course.
“Neither of us got in. It took us three long years to get into drama school and during that time I had various jobs, packing worming tablets, selling fish and chips and I was also an Avon Lady.
“Most of these jobs I’d been sacked from. I was fired from the Last Drop Village tea rooms in Bolton for not knowing what a cream tea is, I thought it was a tea with cream in it. But now I have an honorary doctorate! Unbelievable.”
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