{"id":269573,"date":"2025-07-17T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269573\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:53:09","slug":"two-doors-down-in-surprise-return-with-christmas-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269573\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Doors Down in surprise return with Christmas special"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first series drew an audience of 1.3 million when it began on BBC Two in 2016. This grew to 2.8 million for the last series on BBC One.<\/p>\n

The programme won an RTS Scotland Award for Best Comedy in 2017 and 2024, and Bafta Scotland Best Actress awards for Smith in 2018 and Mackichan in 2024.<\/p>\n

In a 2019 interview with The Scottish Sun, external<\/a>, Carlyle said Arabella Weir’s character Beth was inspired by his own mum Dorothy, and that Beth’s son Ian – played by Jamie Quinn – drew on his experience of coming out as gay while growing up in Ayr.<\/p>\n

He said Ian’s character was treated like many gay men were in the 80s and 90s.<\/p>\n

“You’d have parents who are accepting of it and don’t want to throw you out the family, but are equally not comfortable enough to ask about your boyfriend,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We tried to reflect the truth of that middle ground, the same as we did with a normal Scottish street.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first series drew an audience of 1.3 million when it began on BBC Two in 2016. This…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-269573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114869148502301472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}