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Two Doors Down to make shock TV return two years after BBC series shelved
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‘Please make new series’, beg Two Doors Down fans as BBC fave meets co-stars
LATIMER REUNION
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HIT TV show Two Doors Down is to make a shock comeback – two years after the series was shelved following the death of the sitcom’s co-creator.
A one-off special will be filmed this summer featuring all the cast and screened over the Christmas period.
Alex Norton and Arabella Weir as long-suffering couple Eric and Beth Baird will return with the wacky neighbours of Latimer Crescent.Doon Mackichan plays fans’ fave – the vaping, boozy Cathy.Simon Carlyle, left, passed away in 2023, but now his writing partner Gregor Sharp, right, is ready to write a new instalment of Two Doors Down.
The BBC One show – which was networked throughout the whole of the UK – was halted after the seventh series following the sudden death of the Ayr-born writer Simon Carlyle in August 2023. He was 48.
Simon’s co-writer Gregor Sharp, 54, had told the cast he “could not carry on” without his writing partner.
But last night an insider said: “Gregor always felt that the show was Simon’s baby – they were his characters. That’s why he said he could not continue.
“But Gregor has finally relented and said yes. It’s great news because the show was just left hanging there for the viewers.”
Two Doors Down, which is based around Alex Norton and Arabella Weir as long-suffering couple Eric and Beth Baird and their wacky neighbours on Latimer Crescent, started life as a one-off Hogmanay pilot episode on BBC Two in 2013.
It was then transferred to BBC One with the last episode Vegas – where Michelle (Joy McAvoy) and Alan (Grado) elope in Sin City – screened in November 2023.
But even in January this year the stars, including Jonathan Watson as Colin and Doon Mackichan as his boozy wife Cathy, along with Jamie Quinn and Kiernan Hodgson as couple Ian and Gordon, were told there was “no chance” of a comeback.
But all that changed earlier this month when the cast were informed that Gregor, from Paisley, Renfrewshire, was working on new material.
All the cast and crew had been left shellshocked by Simon’s death, as the writer had been an everpresent on set at the BBC studios in Dumbarton.
Elaine, 66, who plays foul-mouthed neighbour Christine, once described the creative partnership between Simon and Gregor like “a marriage.”
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She said: “They had been writing together for 20 years. So Gregor’s grief will be huge as they were locked in an office together for six months of the year.”
While Arabella, 67, said the writing buddies had “something unique.”
The source added: “Doing a one-off special, rather than writing a whole new series, takes the pressure off of Gregor.
“Hopefully if viewers are happy with the results that will encourage Gregor to continue.
“There really would be no better tribute to Simon than to continue with what he created.”
The neighbours of Latimer Crescent will return for a one-off special during Christmas 2025.
