Channel 4 have confirmed that the final series of Jack Rooke’s award winning sitcom Big Boys will land in February, dropping both a trailer and a bunch of first-look images. 

Staring Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Girls, Beyond Paradise) and Jon Pointing (Plebs, Sweetpea), the show follows a pair of quite different boys thrown together by the university experience.

Set in 2013, the story is told from the point-of-view of Jack (Llewellyn) who is both recovering from his father’s death and exploring his sexuality for the first time.

Dylan Llewellyn & Jon Pointing (c) Roughcut TV / Channel 4

Here’s the synopsis for the final run:

Series three will see our gang enter their final year at Brent Uni, with all the ups and downs of dissertations, deadlines, dating and the devastating departure of Louis Walsh from The X-Factor (for Jack anyway!)

Peggy and Shannon embark on new romances and never-ending nappy changes, whilst Jack and Danny’s friendship is tested to its limits as they realise proper adult life is coming. Will the boys still choose each other like before, or will this be the end of the road?

The cast also includes Camille Coduri, Katy Wix, Izuka Hoyle, Olisa Odele, Harriet Webb, Annette Badland and Jack Rooke.

BAFTA-winning writer and creator, Jack Rooke, said:

“Ten years ago I took a rather ramshackle comedy-theatre hour about grief and friendship to a damp cave at the Edinburgh Fringe and never thought a decade later it’d be a silly, sweet lil sitcom about a lad’s lad and a dweeby gay becoming best mates. My therapist (a close lesbian friend) suggested that Big Boys is subconsciously about me not being able to say a proper goodbye to certain people or periods of my life, and so to give this show a final send-off is a huge honour. I’ve known the ending since the pilot, and I hope it still represents those first Edinburgh shows but also the collaborative genius of our incredible cast, crew and creative team. I’ll be indebted to them always for giving me the funniest, happiest years making Big Boys 1-3. Thank you!”

Big Boys comes from Roughcut TV and director Jim Archer.

You can stream the first two series at Channel 4.