Danny Dyer’s latest Sky Comedy has been greenlit for a second season.
The 47-year-old who played Mick Carter on BBC soap EastEnders, left the role in 2022. In dramatic Christmas Day scenes, the character went missing at sea after jumping in to save Linda Carter (Kellie Bright).
Now, he recently starred as Lee in new Sky Max comedy series Mr Bigstuff, alongside the show’s writer, Ryan Sampson, who is taking on the role of Glen.
A TV insider shared: ‘Danny seems to have found his niche playing a rough-round-the-edges geezer in an out-and-out comedy show.
They added to The Sun: ‘He always said when he quit the BBC One soap that he felt there was one defining role that had so far eluded him.’
This comes after it was confirmed Danny’s six-part comedy Henpocalypse was axed after one series.
The programme written by Caroline Moran, centred on a group of Birmingham women on a hen-do in remote North Wales when an apocalypse of crab measles threatened to wipe out human civilisation.
Danny’s role saw him appear in a series of dream sequences throughout the series. The first episode reached almost a million viewers, but that number dwindled across the run.
A spokesperson for the BBC confirmed to Metro.co.uk: ‘We are very proud of Henpocalypse! but in order to make room for new comedy shows sometimes difficult decisions have to be made and we currently have no plans for another series.’
In a recent chat with Metro, Danny expressed his interest in starting a production company to provide more job opportunities for working class actors.
‘I do want to potentially start my own production company, and I have a bit of a thing going on with the amount of working class people within the arts,’ he explained.
‘I found out that it’s about 6%, and that worries me. So, I would like to, if I could possibly give something back to this industry, because it’s done a lot for me, it would be to try and give some real working class kids hope and opportunity.’
He continued: ‘Classism is a thing. There’s a lot of “isms” in this world. Everyone experiences it at some point, but it shouldn’t define you. It should, if anything, spur you on, because, in my eyes, working class are the most talented people, because they’ve got the most trauma. It takes a bit of trauma to be creative!’
