"The first series ended with Joe's character Vinny faking his own funeral, so clearly we had to pick up on that for the start of series 2 really and then we've really taken everything that was in series 1 and pushed it a little bit further out there in terms of some of the story lines. It's all the same gang with the same tone. We want it to be similar as that's what people like but you've got to take it somewhere slightly different. It's always a worry, you hope it's as good as the first and you hope people will enjoy it"!"
You might hear two controlled explosions in #Bacup tonight for the filming of #Brassic starring Michelle Keegan. Some roads in the centre will be closed until around 9pm. #CapitalReports 📸 Google Maps pic.twitter.com/TYPTkdBLXi
Brassic 2 filming pap shots of Michelle Keegs and Joanna Higson (looking forward to another female character in series 2 - how cold must they be?!) on the street and in an off license, with a tiny glimpse of DaMo!
Well, I'm from the North East (Gateshead area) and the jokes abound here about soft Southerners wearing coats in Winter! You can see girls going to nightclubs wearing stiletto heels and thin strappy dresses, the blokes in trousers, tee shirts and trainers. Those two are wearing boots and long sleeves - almost count as overdressed 😁😁😁
I'm really looking forward to this series. My Sky subscription ended today, so it'll have to be watched via Now TV!
What a brilliant four months! I'm so sad it's come to an end... But can't wait for everyone to see it. A pleasure to work with every single cast and crew member. Honoured to be a part of it. #Brassic@SkyOne 🙏♥️ pic.twitter.com/uxjVFmahme
Just glancing through the Radio Times (I only get it once a year) and I noticed that the BBC and Sky have joined up (briefly) to show some of Sky's "biggest and best" for free.
Brassic is one of the programmes!!!!!!
To watch the entire first series without a Sky or Now Tv subscription between 18th December and 18th January you need to head over to RadioTimes.com/SkyOriginals
I saw this too Ellie! What a treat for anyone who hasn't caught Brassic yet on Sky/NOW or dvd. I'll have to do a big shout out about it so noone misses out! Thank you for sharing the link!
It’s been confirmed that all of the main cast are back for Brassic season 2. That's the leader of the gangVinnie(Joe Gilgun), motivated single mum Erin (Michelle Keegan) and Vinnie's best mate Dylan (Damien Molony).
The returning cast also includes champion kebab eater Cardi (Tom Hanson), gay Traveller Ash (Aaron Heffernan), the sexually liberated Tommo (Ryan Sampson), and garage owner JJ (Parth Thakerar).
It will also see the return of Dominic West as Vinnie’s blundering GP.
Series two will see new faces join the cast including John Thomson (Cold Feet) and Bill Paterson (Fleabag).
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The official description for season 2 of Brassic doesn’t reveal many clues as to what’s in store for the gang, reading: “Season 2 picks up a few months after the events that took place in the season 1 finale.
“Together the Brassic gang embark on even bigger and bolder misadventures around the fictitious rural town of Hawley in Lancashire.”
There are some clues hidden in the first trailer for season 2 of Brassic. Firstly we know Vinnie’s in hiding, adopting an elaborate disguise - including new bleached hair. It also looks like Terrence McCann (Ramon Tikaram) employs Vinnie as a professional thief, after discovering Vinnie’s not dead after all at the end of season 1.
Also, we see Dylan (Damien Molony) kissing another girl in the trailer. Does that mean things are over with him and Erin (Michelle Keegan) after the events of season 1? Or that their relationship is on the rocks after Jake (Anthony Welsh) proposed to her?
And in an interview with HeyUGuys, Gilgun hints that the trouble in Vinnie’s life continues into season 2: "There's no second album syndrome at all, we just hit the ground running. Naturally Vinnie gets into a ton of sh*t again, everything he steals is wrong and he never makes a penny from. He's long suffering is our Vinnie."
In the first episode, Vinnie has been hiding out in his weed shed since faking his own death to escape from local gangster Terrance McCann. Tommo and Erin need his help and try to lure him out of hiding with a new business proposition and together with the lads they plot to rob a travelling circus. With the help of a disgruntled clown, Mr Popov played by John Thomson, the gang aim to make this theft a ‘roaring’ success…
Some info about the upcoming series has been revealed in the past 2 days. with a big storyline coming up for Michelle Keegan's character Erin.
It sounds like the dramedy /dark comedy flavour continues in the upcoming series and they won't be shying away from hard hitting themes.
Let's hope the press respond appropriately, stop focussing on the sex scenes and as Joe Gilgun says "she and the other women in the show are not just there as eye candy."
I've also been looking forward to meeting Jo Higson's "powerhouse" character Sugar, ever since we first heard was joining the series!
Also after series 1 ended I jokingly speculated how cool it would be if Michelle's character Erin became the criminal mastermind, this hints that there is a bit of that coming in the new series.
"But lead star and series creator, ex-Emmerdale actor Joe Gilgun, says she and the other women in the show are not just there as eye candy.
“Often in shows they are a prop,” he says. “But I didn’t want it to be about the girls being rivals or holding up another character, the boyfriend, the husband.
“We wanted girl power, and we’re going to do that again this time.
“I feel like Michelle’s really had an opportunity on this show to showcase her emotional range. She’s an unbelievable actress and we wanted her to be able to show what she’s made of.”
In the first series of Brassic – billed as the new Shameless – viewers fell in love with Erin who had son Tyler in her teens and is desperate to give him the upbringing she never had. In series two she has a powerhouse sidekick in newcomer Sugar (Joanna Higson).
Joe, 36, says it’s the characters in Brassic that matter to him, not their gender or anything else. “Much like Ash being gay isn’t a subject. Like JJ being Muslim isn’t a subject, or Vinnie’s being bipolar, it’s just who he is – and that’s the only way to get rid of that bulls***.
“I hope that will resonate with viewers because we work bloody hard and we do consider these things. Its not all about robbing horses and growing weed.”
This time around, Erin is very much one of the lads, having failed the exams she was desperate to pass at the end of the last series.
She’s even the mastermind behind some of their hilarious scams – from robbing a circus, where Erin ends up caged in a magic trick, to staging their own low-rent Glastonbury.
But the key to Brassic’s success– which saw the first series followed by 1.6million viewers – is that it switches between all-out farce and heart-rending emotion.
This series will follow the same pattern with Erin as the victim of a sex attack after becoming a high class escort for a local gangster. Joe felt it was an important subject to introduce as she’s torn over whether to report it.
“I think a lot of women can feel embarrassed by this awful thing that’s happened to them,” says Joe. “They’re made to feel that way, which is awful.
“In these scenes we wanted to remind everyone that women have a voice, but men can make them feel unsafe.
“Erin is a very strong woman, she’s a survivor. We wanted to show she’s tough. She’s got Tyler to think of and ultimately, it’s about surviving and coping with what has happened to her."
Very excited for the new series and storylines. Hoe you don't mind I added spoiler tags to your post, as that particular morsel does need spoiler warnings!
Yes, series 3 was announced in Feb and hopefully filming this year, it is a very uncertain time... including for those working in the tv industry. Crossing fingers for normality returning soon.
Meanwhile we have series 2 to escape into for a while, very soon! cannot wait!
"This is peak Gilgun, who always plays remixes of more-or-less the same character in everything he does, but manages it so well it doesn’t matter: brash and tender and funny, with a faultline of emotional weakness running through him, at any one time either threatening to cry about how much his friends mean to him or, alternately, giving the finger to someone out of the window of a stolen lorry while crashing it through a locked gate. This could be him in This Is England, or Misfits, or Preacher, really, but right now it’s him in Brassic, a near-perfect platform for Joe Gilgun to Gilgun on.
That’s not to take away from the rest of the cast, though: the smart foil of Damien Molony’s Dylan, the mothering-as-a-form-of-friendship role of Michelle Keegan’s Erin, Ryan Sampson as a gruff sex-empire proprietor and Dominic West as Vinnie’s posh doctor. At first blush, the supporting cast seems unnecessarily huge, but the more you watch it the more things click together; the more every role in every caper makes sense."
"Writer Danny Brocklehurst delights in crafting eccentric characters with unusual skills, a savage turn of phrase and a willingness to do almost anything for a bag of weed. This small Northern town with a moor rising at the end of every street boasts a cast of grotesques that wouldn’t disgrace a Dickens novel, though phrases such as “the Inspector Morse of minge” definitely would. Welcome back, dudes."