Little Britain Series 3: Back In November

Little BRITAIN: Series 3 November 2005 on BBC THREE BBC ONE! Click on Recap for spoilers on what may (or may not) be coming up in Series 3! Location Filming: Commenced 18th April 2005 Studio Filming: Commenced 3rd August 2005. BREAKING NEWS Unlike Series 1 and 2 which had their debut screenings on BBC THREE, In recognition of the popularity of the show, Series 3 of Little Britain will debut on the BBCs flagship channel; BBC ONE.

Little Britain series three is not the end
At both of the Little Britain Series 3 audience recordings, Matt vehemently denied saying that Series 3 would be the last outing for the show.

Matt Lucas said:'You may have heard there will be no more Little Britain after this series. We never said that! We would LOVE to carry it on, so hopefully this is not the last!'

So there we are! Straight from the horses mouth!


Little Britain to be "rested" after Series 3
The Daily Mirror (23rd July) reported that Little Britian "insiders" claim that Matt and David will take a long break after the Little Britain Tour.



Series 4 on again!
The Daily Star reported that Matt Lucas revealed that they are going to make a series 4 and that the story in the Sunday Times (12th June, below) about them not was rubbish!

Lucas revealed that there will be a fourth series of the comedy despite reports that the show was coming to an end to allow him and Walliams to concentrate on other projects. "We never said that", said Lucas.

No Series 4
The Sunday Times's (12th June 2005) Ben Dowell reported:

Yeah but no: Little Britons rule out fourth series
LITTLE BRITAIN, the television comedy series, is likely to come to an end after a decision by its stars to move on to new projects while the show is at the height of its popularity.
David Walliams and Matt Lucas, who this week begin filming the third series in as many years, have decided not to make a fourth in the near future. The BBC accepts the programme will probably end.
Little Britain, the BBC’s greatest success since The Office, has established Dafydd, “the only gay in the village”, and the obnoxious teenager Vicky Pollard with her “yeah but no but yeah” catchphrase as some of the best-known characters on British television.
Walliams and Lucas will embark on a nationwide Little Britain stage tour in October, which a senior BBC comedy source said this weekend would mark a triumphant farewell to the series that has won four Baftas and 17 other awards.
While the corporation has not given up all hope of reviving the series, the source said: “There have been three series in three years so it is probably right to take a long break.”
He added: “The Office bowed out after two series and it is good to have something that will always be remembered as excellent rather than something that has gone off the boil.”
According to another source close to the production, the duo are unhappy about the size of the programme budget. One character, the Scottish hotelier Ray McCooney, had to be written out of the second series because the £6,000 cost of the set was judged excessive.
Audiences for Little Britain have reached about 6m for its menagerie of mainly vile characters, such as vomiting village women, obese spa junkies and a sullen man who pretends to be disabled.
The success of Little Britain is reported to have brought Lucas and Walliams a windfall of £3m each from DVD sales.
Lucas, 31, is to be executive producer and star of a film written by Ian Buchan, a childhood friend. Lucas, who is gay, will play the ex-boyfriend of a rent boy in the film One Night in Heaven.
Walliams is working on a new sitcom for the BBC and will appear in a film based on The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the 18th-century novel.

I suspect though we may have a "Next episode on BBC3" scenario though!