After a BAFTA nomination for the first series and ratings success for the second, ITV is delighted to announce that our favourite holiday makers will be returning in 2009 with a one hour special and eight new episodes.

The award-winning creator Derren Litten once again pleased the critics with his Brits abroad observations; “Benidorm is back with a tasty mix of spot-on characterisation, humour, and terrible karaoke with some of Britain’s best actors”, “tacky and terrific – a real guilty pleasure”, “Derren’s winningly bawdy sitcom succeeds because it manages to get us laughing with, rather than at its gallery of grotesques”… Read more & comment »

Benidorm actor, Steve Pemberton has revealed why he thinks the first series of the show was so successful on ITV1.

Steve told MSN:

“I think everyone can relate to it. Everyone’s been on holiday, everyone knows what it’s like - and the time of year it goes out definitely helps.

“I was talking to my mum about it and she said ‘I’m really ready for another series because it’s so miserable and grey at the moment’,” he adds.
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Once again the Solana, Benidorm’s premier all inclusive resort, plays host to its usual mix of holidaymakers all looking for sun, sea and savings – although not all of our regulars planned on being there.

Kate and Martin have gone to a nearby picturesque village but find more than a chocolate on the pillow in their room.

The Garveys return with several new additions – Telle’s baby Coolio and Madge’s new boyfriend Mel, owner of five sunbed shops and Didsbury’s answer to Julio Iglesias. Read more & comment »

Former Eastenders actress, Wendy Richards has been causing havoc on the set of ITV drama, Benidorm.

Richards character has to use a mobility scooter, however, her fine motor skills obviously aren’t all they should be, and when Wendy was in charge of the scooter, everyone else made themselves scarce.

Richards told The Sun: “Every time I filmed a scene on a marble floor and I had to drive out of shot, everyone would run a mile as they I knew I could easily crash into them.

“If I wasn’t zooming into a broom cupboard, I was knocking over potted palms. Read more & comment »

Former Eastenders actress, Wendy Richards is to star in ITV comedy, Benidorm.

Best known as Pailine Fowler, Wendy will reportedly play a “loud-mouthed, rude” wheelchair-bound character.

An insider told The Sun: “She is really looking forward to being a part of this series - she was a huge fan of the first.”