‘Catastrophe’ Renewed for Two More Seasons in U.K.

UPDATED: The U.K.’s Channel 4 has renewed comedy Catastrophe for two more seasons. The show, about the rocky relationship between an American man and an Irish woman in England, airs in the U.S. on Amazon Prime. Each of the first two seasons featured six episodes.

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in the series. Season one had Horgan’s Sharon character pregnant, and season two saw the pair with two children.

Season three rolls next year.

Amazon will distribute seasons three and four on its Prime platform.

Horgan is also on board with the HBO comedy Divorce this fall.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.