Award-winning comedian Garrett Millerick’s critically acclaimed ensemble workplace sitcom, Do Gooders, returns for a second six-part series, airing from Wednesday 3rd September at 6.30pm on BBC Radio 4.
This series takes us back behind the curtain of fictional mid-level charity, The Alzheimers Alliance, as the fundraising events team continue their daily struggle for survival. The challenges are bigger than ever – funding cuts, tax increases and the ever-dwindling attention span of the TikTok generation. Cue more office feuds, more workplace romances and more catastrophic fundraising blunders – all par for the course when trying to ‘do good’ on an industrial scale.
The first series of Do Gooders was shortlisted for two BBC Audio Drama Awards 2025 for Best Sitcom and Best Comedy Performance. The series received widespread critical acclaim, was named a critic’s choice in the Radio Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Telegraph, Daily Mail and Chortle, and listed alongside Hancock’s Half Hour and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in The Independent’s run down of ‘The 27 best radio comedies ever’. Starring alongside Garrett, the returning cast includes comedy and sitcom legend actor Fay Ripley (Cold Feet), comedy legend Frank Skinner, 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Ahir Shah, and Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Ania Magliano, with Kathryn Drysdale (Bridgerton) joining the cast.
A phenomenal stand-up comic, writer and director, Garrett recently performed stand-up on legendary US late night show Conan and has spent the past five consecutive years being recommended as one of the top comedy shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2024, Garrett debuted his latest show Garrett Millerick Needs More Space, followed by a nationwide tour, which was recommended as one of The Telegraph’s best autumn tours. Garrett’s previous hour was named as one of the best reviewed shows at the Fringe 2023, whilst his breakout live show Sunflower was also one most talked about shows of 2018 and saw him nominated for Breakthrough Act at the 2019 Chortle Awards, as well as a winner at the Three Weeks Editor’s Choice Awards that same year. Following up the show with Smile and Just Trying to Help, which was nominated for Best Show at the 2022 Leicester Comedy Festival, all three critically-acclaimed shows were recorded and made available internationally.
Written by and starring Garrett Millerick, Do Gooders is an Avalon production. Executive Producers are Richard Allen-Turner, Daisy Knight, Julien Matthews and Jon Thoday. Editor and Sound Engineer is David Thomas. The Producer is Jules Lom and the Commissioning Editor for BBC Radio 4 is Julia McKenzie.
Do Gooders Series 2 first airs on Wednesday 3rd September at 6.30pm on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
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NOTES TO EDITORS
Episode One – The Boxing
Lauren finds a new beau. Clive makes enemies with other charities at the pub. Achi can’t sleep. There’s only one place for all this to come to a head. A charity boxing match.
Do Gooders cast:
Gladys ……………. Kathryn Drysdale
Lauren……………. Ania Magliano
Clive……………Garrett Millerick
Harriett …………….Fay Ripley
Achi …………….Ahir Shah
Ken ……………..Frank Skinner
Guest Starring:
Darren……………. Red Richardson
About Avalon
Avalon is a multi-award-winning talent management, television production and live promotion group with offices in London, Los Angeles and New York. Avalon, Artists Rights Group and The Agency together represent a diverse and distinctive roster of artists including actors, comedians, writers and directors, among them Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy, Tony and Olivier Award-winners.
Avalon is the UK’s largest true independent television production company, with over 40 shows in production in the last year including: hit entertainment format Taskmaster (Channel 4 in the UK, Network 10 in Australia, TV4 in Sweden, TVNorge/Discovery+ in Norway); Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO); Starstruck (HBO Max/BBC); Not Going Out (BBC), the UK’s longest running sitcom on air; Breeders (FX/Sky); and Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly (Channel 5). Avalon has produced over 4,000 episodes of hit programming for audiences in the UK, US and around the world, winning over 30 Emmy Awards and BAFTAs from 100+ nominations.
Other landmark Avalon shows include Catastrophe (Amazon/Channel 4), Flatbush Misdemeanors (Showtime), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), TV Burp (ITV), and the cult classic workplace sitcom Workaholics (Comedy Central). Avalon has also produced over 60 comedy specials for various platforms including Amazon, HBO, Netflix and Sky, as well as numerous podcasts and radio shows, including the UK’s second most popular podcast, Shagged. Married. Annoyed. with Chris & Rosie Ramsey. Avalon’s dedicated distribution arm licenses its catalogue of programmes and formats to over 200 territories worldwide.
Avalon also produces and promotes live comedy around the world and has promoted more winners and nominees of the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award than any other company. Avalon produced Newman and Baddiel: Live at Wembley, the UK’s first arena comedy show, Jerry Springer: The Opera, winner of four Olivier Awards, and is currently producing the 2024 Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical, Operation Mincemeat in the West End and on Broadway.
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