{"id":1226,"date":"2019-05-28T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T10:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2019-05-28T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T10:32:32","slug":"gavin-and-stacey-james-corden-announces-christmas-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/gavin-and-stacey-james-corden-announces-christmas-special\/tv-and-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin and Stacey: James Corden announces Christmas special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV series Gavin and Stacey will be returning for a one-off Christmas special. James Corden has announced the news on social media.\u00a0On Twitter, Corden tweeted a picture of the script, him and co-worker Ruth Jones had been &#8220;keeping this secret for a while&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last 10 years we\u2019ve talked a lot about Gavin and Stacey \u2013 where they might be today and what their lives might look like. So, in secret, we took the plunge and wrote this one-hour special,\u201d <strong>they said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve loved revisiting Barry and Essex again, and bringing the characters back together has been a joy. We\u2019re so excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/107131760_gavestacey_gety.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"936\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/107131760_gavestacey_gety.jpg 936w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/107131760_gavestacey_gety-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/107131760_gavestacey_gety-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Corden and Jones will return to their roles as Smithy and Nessa, as will Mathew Horne, Joanna Page, Rob Brydon, Larry Lamb, Melanie Walters and Alison Steadman.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin and Stacey is a Bafta-winning sitcom which is based around a long-distance relationship between a girl from south Wales and an Essex boy. Gavin and Stacey fell in love and married after speaking on the phone to each other every day after work. The TV series\u00a0follows the key moments in their relationship: their first meeting, meeting each other&#8217;s families, getting engaged, marrying, looking for a flat, briefly splitting up, looking for new jobs and trying for children.<\/p>\n<p>The last time it screened was in the UK in 2010. The New Year&#8217;s Day finale in 2010 had 10.25 million views.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ruth Jones and I have been keeping this secret for a while&#8230; We\u2019re excited to share it with you. See you on Christmas Day \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCOne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCOne<\/a>\u2069 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GavinandStacey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GavinandStacey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gTRa3cp90t\">pic.twitter.com\/gTRa3cp90t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Corden (@JKCorden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JKCorden\/status\/1133252827235717120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlotte Moore, director of BBC Content, said:<\/strong> &#8220;We can&#8217;t wait to see what&#8217;s happened to everyone over the last nine years, and what&#8217;s next for one of the nation&#8217;s favourite comedy families.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV series Gavin and Stacey will be returning for a one-off Christmas special. James Corden has announced the news on social media.\u00a0On Twitter, Corden tweeted a picture of the script, him and co-worker Ruth Jones had been &#8220;keeping this secret for a while&#8221;. \u201cOver the last 10 years we\u2019ve talked a lot about Gavin and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-and-films"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}