ITV Orders More Safeword

LONDON: ITV has commissioned STV Productions, with co-production partners GroupM Entertainment, to produce a second season of the ITV2 comedy panel show Safeword.

Rick Edwards (Free Speech, Tool Academy) returns as host for the ITV2 series, joined by team captains Katherine Ryan (Bring the Noise, Lip Sync Battle UK) and David Morgan (I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! Now!, Xtra Factor). The six 45-minute episodes will start filming in March. The series sees two teams (a celebrity guest and two comedians) go head-to-head in a competitive “roast” format.

Gary Chippington, the head of entertainment at STV Productions, said: “It’s great to be working with ITV on another series of Safeword and we look forward to bringing viewers more unsafe comedy from Rick, Katherine and David as our teams are let loose on each other again.”

Tony Moulsdale, the director of programming at GroupM Entertainment, said: “We are really pleased to see this ruthlessly funny and unforgiving comedy panel show coming back to ITV2 for a second series.”

Claire Zolkwer, the commissioning editor of comedy and entertainment for ITV, said: “The innate sense of mischief that Rick, Katherine and David bring to the show makes Safeword a must-see, jaw-dropping series that we so love on ITV2.”