The Revolution Will Be Televised gets a 3rd series

Saturday 26th April 2014, 5:17pm

The Revolution Will Be Televised. Image shows from L to R: Jolyon Rubinstein, Heydon Prowse. Copyright: Hat Trick Productions

BBC Three's political prank show The Revolution Will Be Televised is to return for a third series.

Speaking in a video interview with The Radio Times, star Jolyon Rubinstein confirmed: "Yeah, there's a third series of The Revolution Will Be Televised coming... so, David Cameron, watch it!"

Rubinstein, alongside fellow creator Heydon Prowse, first came to prominence via the politically motivated videos they created for Don't Panic Online. The Revolution Will Be Televised, a show in which the duo aim to expose 'corruption, greed and hypocrisy', launched on BBC Three in 2012. The series went on to win a number of awards, including a BAFTA for Best Comedy Programme.

A second series launched in November 2013, with notable targets including the Prime Minister, Nigel Farage and Ed Milliband. One sketch, filmed outside GCHQ, caused the government's intelligence centre to go into 'lockdown' mode. Prowse, talking in an in-depth BCG interview, explained how a guard reacted badly: "He was kind of running around saying 'You guys are in so much trouble. Do you realise this is a top secret facility? You just shut it down. There's a 10 minute queue of cars around the block! This is just unbelievable!'"

The duo also talked in the interview about how the BBC have fully backed the show from the start, despite it being a difficult production to be involved with. "Every time that we get pulled up by the Police and the Police call the BBC, their lawyers have to speak to someone. It's difficult for the BBC to do this, it's not an easy programme to make."

No details have been officially released about the third series yet, so it is not yet known when it will be filmed or broadcast. The programme is made by Facejacker producers Hat Trick.

Prowse & Rubinstein will attend the BAFTA TV Awards next month, as the show has been nominated again this year. It is up against A League Of Their Own, Would I Lie To You? and The Graham Norton Show.

In the below Radio Times video, Rubinstein confirms the new series, plus talks about the implications of BBC Three becoming an online-only channel:

In this video, taken from the second series, the team attempt to install a glass ceiling in various foreign embassies that want to 'keep women in their place'.

View this clip on the BBC website

This high profile stunt sees Rubinstein, in character as a Tory MP, managing to evade security to present the Prime Minister with a Bullingdon Club annual.

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