'Big Mood' Will Return for Emotional Season 2
It took almost a year and a post or two begging for a second season, but Channel 4 has confirmed the return of the unsung comedy hit of 2024, Big Mood. The series had decent viewership numbers in the U.K. when it initially aired, but surprised Anglophiles in the U.S. by going to Tubi, one of the free FAST services that decorate American app stores. Americans don't think of FAST channels as having original programming (most are laid out as ad-supported channels dedicated to old TV series), so Big Mood's consignment to the platform could have doomed the show. Luckily, it did well enough for Channel 4 to bring it back for another season.
The series partly found success in the U.S. due to star Nicola Coughlan, who used her turn as the leading lady in Bridgerton Season 3 to promote Big Mood Season 1 to American fans, turning it into a sleeper hit on this side of the pond. Tubi further cemented its success as a platform in the wake of Coughlan's savvy marketing, garnering more viewers than high-profile streaming services like Apple TV+, and it just kicked off 2025 by streaming the American Super Bowl for free to U.S. viewers*, making it the first genuinely successful FAST streaming service in the nation.
(*Sadly, to manage the viewership load, it disabled streaming everything else on the service for the evening, making it a missed opportunity for those bored by the blow-out to find other titles.)
