Normal People Returns Tomorrow For New Special Episodes

Ask and you shall receive. Mere months after Normal People landed on our televisions, turning us into Marianne and Connell obsessives with a slightly unhealthy infatuation with blunt, brown fringes and little gold chains, we are getting a brand new fix. That’s right: the programme is returning, and sooner than you would have thought possible.

It's been announced that Normal People – the biggest show in BBC Three’s history in both acclaim and viewing figures – is to return for two new specials. Based on the novel by Sally Rooney and starring Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones as lovers across the class divide, the new episodes will air on Irish television tomorrow.

We’re excited, but don’t lose your heads. Rather than signifying a bonafide second series, the episodes are two, short clips put together for RTÉ Does Comic Relief in Ireland. But with Paul and Daisy confirmed to reprise their already iconic roles, that’ll do us quite nicely.

Richard Curtis, co-founder of Comic Relief and the man behind hit rom-coms like Four Weddings And A Funeral and Love Actually, confirmed the news, and explained that the specials will imagine Daisy and Paul’s future.

Speaking on RTE Radio 1, he explained the schedule for the fundraiser. 'There's a beautiful piece called Normal Older People, which is imagining what would have happened to Marianne and Connell 40 years from now,’ he explained.

'I promise you, these are two very special bits. It's so much better than anything we've ever made.

'I mean I can't even say all about it because there's a guest star in it. But it's really, it's really beautiful. One of the things about Comic Relief is it just gives opportunities for things to happen that would never happen. I can't imagine any context in which they would have allowed this little sort of extra special into the world of Normal People.'

The specials will be directed by Lenny Abrahamson, who helmed the original series. But who will show up as the guest star? We can’t wait to find out…