The Assembly will be back for a third outing on ITV. The hit show, which sees celebrities being questioned by a panel of autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled interviewers, finished airing its second series earlier this month. Bonus episodes, Unseen and More Unseen, will also return.
Guests so far have included the likes of Danny Dyer, Jade Thirlwall, Lenny Henry, Sir Stephen Fry, Anna Maxwell Martin and Nicola Sturgeon.
ITV's Entertainment and Reality Commissioning Editor, David Smyth, said: "There are so many more celebrities who need The Assembly experience. Everyone that’s done it walks away saying it’s the best thing they’ve ever done, and the warmth we receive from fans and critics alike shows viewers agree. We can’t wait to get cracking with more.”
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Michelle Singer of production company Rockerdale Studios added: “That we get to return to ask more questions of even more celebrities is thrilling, of course. That our brilliant team on and behind the cameras can come back to do what, collectively, we do best is wonderful. We can’t wait for audiences to see and hear more.”
The show's format is adapted from the French series Les Rencontres du Papotin and airs in 20 territories worldwide. Here, it has amassed over 6.9 million streams on ITVX, and reached over 10 million viewers altogether, including on broadcast TV.
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The show won the prize for Formatted Popular Factual at this year's Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards, and was also nominated for Best Factual Entertainment at the BAFTAs.
It has produced moments that have been funny, frank and also moving, with one moment from Anna Maxwell Martin proving particularly emotional.
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When one panelist named Mike, who opened up about the loss of his father, asked the Motherland star about the loss of her husband Roger Mitchell, she said: “People don’t ask because they’re scared. For my kids, it was four years ago. I give you all the strength I can muster because it’s a long road where you need a lot of patience.”
She added: “I lost my dad when I was 24 and it was very, very hard. I felt very alone, and then it happened to my children... I really tried to be the best mum that I could for them. Sometimes I failed in that.
“I know this is a real cliché but I think it’s true. It has made me, bizarrely, such a positive, tenacious person. In the end, it’s been really f***ing hard but it makes me smash the doors off of life.”
The Assembly's first two series are on ITVX now.
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Shaun is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy, with over a decade of experience reporting on all things pop culture. He has written for outlets including Metro, Attitude, Huffington Post, The Mirror, Yahoo!, Pink News and Express Online, specialising in TV, movies, soaps, music and LGBTQ+ issues. He is also a BAFTA Rocliffe-winning scriptwriter, having written episodes of the soap Hollyoaks, the official Steps musical Here & Now and multiple Offie Award-nominated plays. He studied English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, and will happily talk at length about Desperate Housewives to anyone who'll listen.
