It has been confirmed that ITV has recommissioned police sitcom Piglets.

Filming has just started on the six-episode series. The first series was one of the biggest comedies on ITVX, though it was also controversial for its title.

Piglets follows a group of six new recruits and the staff whose task it is to knock them into some kind of shape.

The new series will see Sarah Parish and Mark Heap reprise their roles as no nonsense Superintendent Julie Spry and benign Superintendent Bob Weekes.  Joining them will be Chief Superintendent Cunningham (Colin McFarlane), Head of Admin Melanie (Rebecca Humphries) police trainer Daz (Ricky Champ) and the returning police trainees, officious Afia (Halema Hussain), wannabe actor Dev (Abdul Sessay), Paul (Jamie Bisping) and reluctant wise owl Geeta (Sukh Kaur Ojla).

The second series will also see the arrival of two new police trainees Danni (Madelyn Smedley) and the enigmatic Connor (Kerr Logan).

The new series will see Paul grapple with being a ‘double prune’, Superintendents Weekes and Spry battle to save their jobs being axed by the increasingly eccentric Chief Super Cunningham, Daz’s anger management course leads to an unexpected liaison, a trainee’s wedding and a cat and mouse rooftop chase.

ITV’s Head of Comedy, Nana Hughes, who commissioned the series said: “We are absolutely thrilled to bring back the attention-grabbing Piglets for a second series on ITV.”

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