The Meeting has been commissioned for a second sequence.
The hit TV present entails celebrities going through questions from a gaggle of people who find themselves autistic, neurodivergent and/or studying disabled, and a second season of The Meeting has now been commissioned for 2026.
ITV boss Katie Rawcliffe mentioned: “This actually is ITV leisure at its greatest: heat, humorous, revealing and simply that little bit mischievous.
“We have numerous concepts about which well-known faces will be a part of for sequence two and we’re desirous to see what we’ll be taught from the incredible questions The Meeting may have.”
The primary season of the TV present featured the likes of Danny Dyer, David Tennant, Little Combine’s Jade Thirlwall and Gary Lineker.
And David Smyth, the leisure commissioning editor of ITV, has promised that the brand new sequence of the present will characteristic a gaggle of “daring celebrities”.
He mentioned: “The response to sequence one was thrilling and fully deserved for this incredible solid and crew.
“There was little question in my thoughts that we wanted to do extra. I am unable to wait to see what questions The Meeting will put to our subsequent group of daring celebrities and what their responses shall be…”
In the meantime, Stu Richards, the artistic director of producers Rockerdale Studios, beforehand dismissed strategies that The Meeting is “tokenistic”, describing the present as “mainstream leisure”.
He mentioned: “It’s not simply illustration for the sake of it – it’s not tokenistic. We see this as mainstream leisure.”
Stu additionally steered that The Meeting is extra heartfelt and honest than most different TV exhibits.
He defined: “There’s an honesty that you simply simply don’t get in different TV exhibits.
“It has non-culturally particular values like honesty and by extension, empathy. In exhibits with disabled individuals, you as a viewer are nearly all the time requested to be sympathetic in direction of the individuals you’re seeing. You’re not often requested to empathise. On this present, our solid have the authorship, they’ve the company.”