Fleabag
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2016 - 2019
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Comedy series starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a woman living in London whose life is a mess. Also features Sian Clifford, Bill Paterson, Olivia Colman, Andrew Scott, Brett Gelman and more.
Streaming rank this week: 321
Press clippings Page 22
Fleabag series 2 will be released weekly, no boxset
Second series will be broadcast on BBC One on Mondays at 10.35pm - despite drive to attract younger audiences.
Jim Waterson, The Guardian, 20th February 2019Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the return of Fleabag
'I've always wanted to be a bat - but I'm expected to be a panther,' Phoebe Waller-Bridge tells Amanda Hess. Now, the writer and actor is really getting to spread her wings
Amanda Hess, The Independent, 17th February 2019Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 'I was always open about sex'
We are discussing the sexual demands she would make of her partners in her 20s. 'I was always really open about sex and how I was feeling about it. In every relationship I went into, I was like, "We are going to be honest about this! Was that all right for you?"'
Gavanndra Hodge, The Telegraph, 2nd February 2019Kristin Scott Thomas and Fiona Shaw join Fleabag Series 2
Kristin Scott Thomas and Fiona Shaw are set to guest star in Series 2 of Fleabag. This story also reveals more details about what is coming up in the new series.
British Comedy Guide, 24th January 2019At this point, Phoebe Waller-Bridge can basically write her own cheques. For any other writer, Killing Eve would have been an all-time career highlight, but Fleabag remains her masterpiece. The first series was so perfectly self-contained, hinging on a flawlessly executed final-episode revelation, that it's hard to know where a second series could go. But doubt Waller-Bridge at your peril. The woman can even fart on command. This will be unmissable.
Lanre Bakare, Gwilym Mumford and Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 2nd January 2019AMC's comedy channel IFC picks up Fleabag
AMC Network's comedy channel IFC has acquired British comedy Fleabag, from writer, actor and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Kaltrina Bylykbashi, TBI Vision, 14th December 2018Definitive guide to British comedy since Fawlty Towers
The British are coming, and they want to invade your television. With ... laughter.
Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21st November 2018Broadway run for Fleabag
Fleabag is to make its onstage New York debut, performed by writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 15th November 2018Why the 'cringe com' reigns
Whether it's cult films or the mockumentary style perfected by The Office, why do we seek discomfort from our comedies?
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 12th November 2018Fleabag filmed at Kentish Town café
The comedy show used the Village Cafe, in York Rise, in the opening series as her favourite hangout - but the owners have spent the summer converting it into a diner. Building work was not finished in time for the filming of series two. Instead, production company Two Brothers has brought in a team to put the cafe back to how it was - for one week only - before builders return.
Islington Tribune, 30th August 2018