Romesh Ranganathan’s BBC Two topical comedy show, The Ranganation is returning this year. Romesh will once again be joined by his hand-picked focus group, The Ranganation - 25 loveable, outspoken characters who represent a cross section of modern Britain, and who will give Romesh their take on a number of topical areas, sharing their own experiences along the way. Celebrity guests will also be on hand to use the Ranganation as a sounding board and to give their own take on the subjects covered.

Past discussions with members of the Ranganation such as ‘Privileged’, ‘Small Town Girl’, ‘Has Never Voted’ and ‘Romesh’s Mum’, have covered such disparate areas as smart phone addiction, whether alien life exists, whether or not you should wash your legs in the shower and artificial intelligence.

Romesh Ranganathan says: “I thought The Ranganation were brilliant last series and I really enjoyed looking at the world with them, so it is great that we are going to be doing it all over again. It also means that there is definitely a six week block where my mum is not having a go at me for not seeing her enough.”

Shanti Ranganathan adds: “I am very excited to be doing the show again with Rommy. I love doing it, and I hope this time round he will work harder on his monologues as that was the weak part last time.”

Series one averaged 1.2m viewers and was the biggest new BBC Two entertainment series for under 45s and 16-34s since 2016 (Robot Wars).

The Ranganation is a Zeppotron production for BBC Two. Ruth Phillips and Richard Cohen are Executive producers for Zeppotron, Mark Barrett is the Series Producer and Barbara Wiltshire is the Director. The show was commissioned by Patrick Holland, Controller, BBC Two and Kate Phillips, Controller, Entertainment Commissioning. The BBC Commissioning Editor is Ruby Kuraishe.