Gavin and Stacey future revealed with BBC hoping for spin-off with two characters

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Gavin and Stacey future revealed with BBC hoping for spin-off with two characters
Author: Emily Bashforth
Published: Dec, 27 2024 09:09

If you’re not quite ready to bid goodbye to Gavin and Stacey, you’re not the only one—but there’s still reason to hope that we’ll see our favourite characters again one day. On Christmas Day, a whopping 12.5million people tuned in for the last-ever episode of the beloved BBC comedy, 17 years after it premiered.

 [Julia Davis and Adrian Scarborough as Dawn and Pete in Gavin & Stacey]
Image Credit: Metro [Julia Davis and Adrian Scarborough as Dawn and Pete in Gavin & Stacey]

Penned by James Corden and Ruth Jones, while the series has amassed a huge following over three series and three festive specials, the creators have already confirmed there shall be no more. However, execs are keen to strike while the iron is hot and coax whatever future material they can out of the Gavin and Stacey universe.

 [Smithy (JAMES CORDEN), Gavin (MATHEW HORNE), Stacey (JOANNA PAGE), Nessa (RUTH JONES) of Gavin and Stacey standing on road]
Image Credit: Metro [Smithy (JAMES CORDEN), Gavin (MATHEW HORNE), Stacey (JOANNA PAGE), Nessa (RUTH JONES) of Gavin and Stacey standing on road]

According to sources, this could include a spin-off with two iconic characters. An insider told The Sun: ‘It would be madness to close the door on such a hit.’. It is therefore thought that Dawn and Pete, played by Julia Davis and Adrian Scarborough, respectively, could eventually get their own series.

 [Julia Davis and Adrian Scarborough as Dawn and Pete in Gavin & Stacey]
Image Credit: Metro [Julia Davis and Adrian Scarborough as Dawn and Pete in Gavin & Stacey]

A TV source added: ‘James and Ruth are adamant this is the last of Gavin and Stacey, but, when a programme achieves such results, execs will always hope for more. ‘At the end of the day, ratings talk, and it would be madness to close the door on such a hit forever when fans loved it so much.

 [Gavin and Stacey called out by Southampton locals for 'mistake' in pivotal scene NESSA SMITHY GAVIN STACEY]
Image Credit: Metro [Gavin and Stacey called out by Southampton locals for 'mistake' in pivotal scene NESSA SMITHY GAVIN STACEY]

‘Bosses have had casual discussions about whether options like a Pete and Dawn spin-off could work.’. On why a spin-off with the forever bickering married couple could work, they added that Dawn and Pete were ‘always more separate from the main group’.

 [James Corden, Ruth Jones and Mathew Horne in Gavin and Stacey finale]
Image Credit: Metro [James Corden, Ruth Jones and Mathew Horne in Gavin and Stacey finale]

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