'Big Mood' Will Return for Emotional Season 2
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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.)
Coughlan's statement in the press release announcing Season 2 was directed to those who found the show via her push. “Deeply grateful to everyone who loves our mad, funny, sad show. It’s been one of the greatest joys of my life making it, and I’m beyond delighted that we get to come back and tell the next chapter of Maggie and Eddie’s story. Rats at the ready.”
Here's the Season 2 synopsis:
It’s been a year since Maggie and Eddie last saw each other, without any contact between the best friends. When Eddie suddenly returns for a wedding, she isn’t alone - Maggie has competition, in the form of an infuriatingly positive spiritual healer named Whitney. Can Maggie and her special brand of chaos find space in Eddie’s new life? Or will Maggie lose Eddie forever?
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) will return as Maggie, and Lydia West (It’s A Sin) will return as Eddie. No other cast has been confirmed at this time, but further returnees and new additions are expected to be announced when filming commences later in 2025.
Series creator Camilla Whitehill returns to write all six episodes of Season 2, with Season 1 director Rebecca Asher again helming all installments. Executive producers for the show's second season will include Season 1 exec Lotte Beasley Mestriner, plus Laurence Bowen and Chris Carey for Dancing Ledge Productions, a Fremantle company.
Whitehill was her usual hilarious self in her statement about the renewal: “I had no plan B and zero transferable skills, so I am overjoyed to be bringing Big Mood back for another round! Discovering that there are actually loads of weirdos who like the same weirdo stuff as me has been a real privilege. My ongoing blackmail campaign against Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West continues in earnest. They’ll never escape me.”
Big Mood Season 2 does not have a release date, but it currently looks like it might arrive at the very end of 2025 for the U.K., and probably early 2026 on Tubi.
