Up The Women returns

First appearing nearly two years ago with 3 episodes, BBC Four comedy Up The Women returned for a full series. Co-written by and co-starring Jessica Hynes (Asylum, Spaced, Bob & Rose, The Royle Family, According To Bex, Twenty Twelve/W1A) with an excellent cast of Rebecca Front (too many credits), Judy Parfitt (most recently: Call The Midwife, The Game), Vicki Pepperdine (most recently: Puppy Love, Getting On, Chickens), Emma Pierson (Beast, Time Gentlemen Please, Dead Boss, Hotel Babylon, Worst Week of My Life), Ryan Sampson (After You've Gone, Plebs), Adrian Scarborough (most recently: Plebs, Edge of Heaven, Mrs Biggs, Cranford, Gavin & Stacey) and others. Personally, I was glad to see this return. BBC Four offers a nice comedy balance to some of the juvenile comedy churned out by BBC Three. Despite being a comedy it does a good job reminding us of the seriousness of the long struggle of the suffrage movement. 
On 30 March BBC announced that Up The Women has ended and will not be returning. 
Up The Women ends

Up the Women

Quick Cuts, another BBC Four 3-episode comedy from 2013, did not return and is not new here, but needed a new "home" as did Vicious. Vicious is supposed to be returning at some point, possibly later this year. With Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi never lacking for work, scheduling has probably been a problem.