Co-written by Matafeo, Alice Snedden, and Nic Sampson, the second six-part, thirty-minute series continues the story of Jessie, a millennial living in East London juggling two dead end jobs and navigating the complications of becoming romantically involved with famous film star Tom (Patel). All episodes of Starstruck are now streaming on iPlayer, and available to watch on BBC One every Monday at 10:40PM.Watch on iPlayer.
We can't wait for audiences to see this hilarious and quirky love story." Working with Rose and the team at Avalon has been amazing and so we had to keep it going. "Rose is an exciting talent whose international stardom is on the rise. A drunken New Year's Eve hook-up becomes far more complicated for Jessie when she discovers her one night stand is actually a film star what she thought would become an amusing anecdote soon. Get your first look at the trailer below. All six episodes of season two premiere on March 24. There are no rules for finding romance in the HBO Max series Starstruck. Jennifer Kim, Senior Vice President of International Originals at HBO Max, said: READ MORE: ‘Starstruck’ Trailer: A Celebrity Hook-Up With An Aimless Millenial Becomes Something More On HBO Max. Matafeo played it pretty cool and wry at the time, saying: "I'm thrilled that Starstruck will be returning to the BBC Three for a second series, because I left my water bottle on set last year and I would love to get it back."
Minnie Driver is back, excitingly, as Tom's agent, while British fave Russell Tovey also joins the cast for the new season, as was announced way-back-when last year when the second season was announced (ahead, even, of the pilot's June premiere). RELATED: 'Starstruck' Season 2: First Image Reveals Jessie and Tom's Domestic Bliss
A second series was commissioned before the first series aired. (Audience cue card: say aaaawh.) She quit her job, she moved out of her flat, but hey: that's love! Starstruck is a BBC comedy series created by Rose Matafeo, co-written with Alice Snedden, directed by Karen Maine, and starring Matafeo and Nikesh Patel with Minnie Driver in a special guest starring role. Well, at the end of the last season, with the love of Tom and Jessie as turbulent as always, she planned on leaving the country - but, as the newly released trailer confirms, she decided to stay in the country because of him. Then comes all the usual stuff you'd expect with a delightful comic twist: will-they-won't-theys, meet-cutes, misunderstandings n'all. Rose's character, Jessie, very much is not.
But here's the Notting Hill esque twist: as she would find out after the first hook up, after waking up next to him, Tom is a famous movie star. What to Watch Latest Trailers IMDb Originals IMDb Picks IMDb Podcasts. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. The first season of New Zealand comic Rose Matafeo's rib-tickler saw her embark on a surprising fling with Nikesh Patel's Tom, a pretty standard love story on the face of things. 'Living Smaller' Starstruck Trailer (TV Episode 2022) on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. Take the 'German' out of the equation, and you've got the basic premise of the BBC and HBO's rom-com serial, Starstruck. It’s there that she encounters a man who pulls her up on the faults of her James Bond impression.As The Passions sang, "I'm in love with a German film star" - and hey, we've all had our celebrity crushes, right? Bored senseless – and to excessive drink – by one young man’s exhortations to invest in aluminium and bitcoin – and that’s before he informs her that he’s “only interested in Kate”, Jessie escapes to the queue-free men’s bathroom to try and regather. Unhappy with her non-existent love life, she has to be dragged out on New Year’s Eve by her flatmate Kate (Emma Sidi). Starstruck (which debuts on TVNZ2 on Wednesday night at 9.30pm), co-written with fellow New Zealand funnywoman Alice Sneddon, has Matafeo playing Jessie, a London millennial juggling jobs as a feckless nanny and argumentative upmarket cinema worker. Co-written by Matafeo, Alice Snedden, and Nic Sampson, the second six-part, thirty-minute series continues the story of Jessie, a millennial living in East London juggling. Having followed up her Edinburgh fringe festival comedy award victory with increasing ubiquity on UK panel shows and her first cinematic starring role in last year’s Baby Done, the multi-talented Matafeo now has her own sitcom made by the heavy hitting trans-Atlantic duo of the BBC and HBO Max. Jessie has a good reason for freaking out in the official trailer for Starstuck Season 2, which will release all six episodes on Thursday, March 24 on HBO Max. I wonder if we can get the trailer next, JC said, grinning, taking Theresa's hand. REVIEW: Kiwi comedian Rose Matafeo’s plans for global domination remain on track with the release of this charming and clever sitcom. Starstruck stars Kiwi comedian Rose Matafeo.