In The Flesh Recommissioned For Extended Series

The BBC Three zombie drama In The Flesh has been commissioned for an extended second series, it was announced today.

A three-part serial initially ran in March this year after writer Dominic Mitchell was discovered through the BBC Writersroom competition Northern Voices, and the storyline was developed by the BBC Drama Production team in Salford.

It told of zombie teenager Kieren Walker, played by Luke Newberry, and his reintegration into both the local community and the heart of his family four years after a zombie uprising, with zombies renamed Partially Deceased Syndrome sufferers by the government in the show.
Mitchell said: Zai Bennett, the controller of BBC Three, commented: Kate Harwood, the BBC's Head of Drama, England, added: The first episode - on Sunday 17th March - gained 793,000 viewers and was the second-highest programme on the digital channel for that week, according to BARB. Episode two didn't make the top 10 but the final episode, on Sunday 31st March, was at number seven with 638,000 viewers.

The new series has been commissioned by Bennett and BBC drama controller Ben Stephenson.
To be made by BBC Drama Production North, with Hilary Martin and Ann Harrison-Baxter as executive producers, it will be filmed later this year and be broadcast in 2014.

It has not been confirmed yet how many episodes it will comprise, but trade publication Broadcast says it is likely to be up to six episodes long. New writers are expected to come on board for the show alongside Mitchell, who wrote all of the first series.