David Farnor | On 29, Dec 2017

“Finding love. It’s all disappointment and heartbreak and misery. Until it isn’t.” That’s the sound of romantic comedy Lovesick coming back to our screens in the new year.

Yes, Tom Edge’s romantic comedy, which first premiered on Channel 4 way back in 2014, is back for a third run. The show follows the exploits of hapless 20-something Dylan Witter (Johnny Flynn), who, after receiving a troubling diagnosis, resolves to contact everyone he’s ever slept with to tell them the news. Each episode focuses on Dylan reaching out to a different girl from his past, which gives him the opportunity to look back on his neurotic mess of a love life and figure out where it all went wrong.

It first began under the name Scrotal Recall, until Netflix picked it up and renamed it Lovesick – a much milder, safer name. That rebranding didn’t turn anybody off, though, with Netflix deciding to renew the show for a third run earlier this year.

“It has become a rose in Netflix’s garden, which now smells twice as sweet,” we wrote in our glowing review of Season 2. “Both the name and the concept behind ‘Scrotal Recall’ suggested something along the lines of a teen-lads-bants gross-out comedy, never really doing justice to what is actually a lightly charming and strangely innocent (yet simultaneously highly amusing) programme.”

Season 3 sees Dylan, Evie and Luke still trying to navigate their way through their love lives in a warts-and-all take on 20-something romance. Evie must come to terms with her feelings for Dylan, just as his relationship with Abigail gets more serious.

All episodes premiere on 1st January 2018. Here’s a trailer:

 

Netflix renews Lovesick for Season 3

22nd February 2017

Netflix has renewed Lovesick for a third season.

Tom Edge’s romantic comedy, which first premiered on Channel 4 way back in 2014, follows the exploits of hapless 20-something Dylan Witter (Johnny Flynn), who, after receiving a troubling diagnosis, resolves to contact everyone he’s ever slept with to tell them the news. Each episode focuses on Dylan reaching out to a different girl from his past, which gives him the opportunity to look back on his neurotic mess of a love life and figure out where it all went wrong.

The show co-stars Antonia Thomas, Daniel Ings and Joshua McGuire. Speaking on The Graham Norton Show, where he was promoting his current run of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with Daniel Radcliffe in London’s West End, McGuire confirmed that the series has been picked up for a third run.

#LoveSick starring #JoshuaMcGuire is back on @NetflixUK for a third series. #TheGNShow

— Graham Norton Show (@TheGNShow) February 17, 2017

He also spoke about the show’s title change from Scrotal Recall to its milder new name.

“You got so used to it, when people asked for you what you were doing, you’d say ‘I’m doing scrotal’,” he joked. “When the first season was happening and an agent emailed the producer, either something went wrong on autocorrect or they got the name of the show wrong and the header of the email was ‘scrotum rectum’… very different show!”

Producers Clerkenwell Films confirmed the renewal following the broadcast. Season 2, meanwhile, continues to pick up more fans online.

“It has become a rose in Netflix’s garden, which now smells twice as sweet,” we wrote in our glowing review of Season 2. “Both the name and the concept behind ‘Scrotal Recall’ suggested something along the lines of a teen-lads-bants gross-out comedy, never really doing justice to what is actually a lightly charming and strangely innocent (yet simultaneously highly amusing) programme.”

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