Amandaland has reportedly been recommissioned for a second series.

The BBC sitcom starring Lucy Punch, Dame Joanna Lumley and Philippa Dunne – which is a spinoff of hit show Motherland – has already proven to be popular with viewers after dropping this month.

And bosses are said to be keen to bring Amanda, her mum Felicity and friend Anne back for more.

An insider told the Daily Star newspaper’s H๏τ TV column: ‘Almost five million Brits are hooked on ‘Amandaland’. It’s become a mᴀssive hit.

‘Top brᴀss at the BBC want another series because they think it has the potential to become a mega hit.

‘They think it could soon become even more popular than Motherland.’

Amandaland has reportedly been recommissioned for a second series (Lucy Punch as Amanda)

The BBC sitcom starring Lucy Punch, Dame Joanna Lumley (seen) and Philippa Dunne – which is a spinoff of hit show Motherland – has already proven to be popular with viewers after dropping this month

It’s reported another six episode run is in the pipeline, with writers already working on scripts and filming set to kick off later in 2025.

Lucy, Dame Joanna and Philippa are believed to have already agreed to reprise their respective roles as Amanda, Felicity and Anne.

The source added that they’re excited to get started on the new episodes.

MailOnline has contacted the BBC for comment.  

Meanwhile, BBC bosses think Amandaland has a ‘a lot of potential’.

Another insider said: ‘Everyone thinks it’s likely to ramp up some big awards and bumper ratings.’

The first series was produced by Motherland’s writer Sharon Horgan’s production company Merman.

Making the initial announcement last year, Horgan said: ‘We’re delighted to be working with the BBC and with this incredible cast.

‘Motherland took off in a way that none of us were expecting and it’s just so exciting that we get to continue to make this next chapter of parenthood and friendship.

‘We have new parents, a new school and new problems to look forward to. We can’t wait to get going on it.’

And bosses are said to be keen to bring Amanda, her mum Felicity and friend Anne back for more

It’s reported another six episode run is in the pipeline, with writers already working on scripts and filming set to kick off later in 2025

It comes after Dame Joanna revealed she ‘knows she’s always going to be cast as grannies and aunts now’ due to her age 

BBC’s Head of Comedy, Tanya Qureshi, added at the time: ”Motherland continues to be one of the most loved comedies on the BBC, and we’re so pleased we are carrying on with the story, taking the characters in a new direction and to a different postcode.

‘Lucy, Joanna and Phillipa are three of the funniest comedy actors around and we’re thrilled to have them on board.’

It comes after Dame Joanna revealed she ‘knows she’s always going to be cast as grannies and aunts now’ due to her age.

The actress, 78, has earned critical acclaim for a string of roles, but in a new interview on the Dish Podcast, revealed that she’s starting to land more parts as ‘vicious, horrible and snobby’ family matriarchs in the latter stages of her career.

Read More Joanna Lumley, 78, admits she ‘knows she’s going to be cast as grannies or aunts now’ due to her age after starring as acid-tongued Felicity in Amandaland

Joanna made the comparison while discussing her role as the ‘snooty’ mother Felicity in Amandaland, where Lucy plays her тιтular on-screen daughter.

The show is a spin-off of the BBC comedy Motherland, and sees recently-divorced Amanda adjusting to life in the ‘lesser’ borough of Harlesden after being forced to relocate from her home in Chiswick.

Speaking to Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett OBE, the Absolutely Fabulous star said: ‘What it was, was when Motherland was running and such a huge success, they had a scene where Lucy Punch’s character, Amanda, had tea with her mother or something, so I was, it was an afternoon, you go, ‘Yeah, be her mother.’

‘And then I think there was another thing where I did something else, slightly longer scene, but I was hardly in it.

‘So, when Motherland stopped and they were going to focus on Amanda, Lucy’s character, the mother is now going to feature a bit more. 

‘How simply lovely. How nice. You know, I’m always a cruel granny, a savage old aunt – a wicked old stepmother. I am.’

‘But it’s lovely. Look, as you get older, of course you’re going to be cast as grannies and aunts. They’re always evil, they’re always vicious and horrible and snobby.

‘Anyway, this, my- Felicity, my character in Amandaland, is lovely because of course she’s a snob, you can tell that, and she’s very disappointed that Amanda’s moved into a rather shabby part of London which she doesn’t approve of. 

‘The children are going to a sort of local school which she doesn’t, so everything she’s a bit snooty about. 

‘But during the episodes you can see she’s kind of getting the horribleness rubbed off her edges a bit. She’s also getting slightly gaga, I think, actually.’

The show is a spin-off of the BBC comedy Motherland, and sees recently-divorced Amanda adjusting to life in the ‘lesser’ borough of Harlesden after being forced to relocate from her home in Chiswick 

Discussing her first scene in the show, she added: ‘I arrive on the doorstep, for a start, I used to say, ‘Let me in, it smells of buses,’ but they changed, they changed the line to, ‘Let me in before I get mugged,’ because Felicity’s so snooty about the area. 

‘And she comes in carrying a Waitrose bag to say, now that you’ve only got whatever it is, something horrible, another supermarket.

‘There are many supermarkets. Less good than Waitrose. She comes in with a Waitrose bag with all the things you can get in Waitrose.’

During the interview, Joanna, who has been a vegetarian for forty years, also discussed her favourite cuisines.