Gets a second season in the UK

http://www.metro.co.uk/tv/864494-big-fat-gypsy-weddings-gets-second-se ries-from-channel-4

"Big Fat Gypsy Weddings' first series was such a ratings smash for Channel 4 that the programme-makers have been commissioned to make a second series of the show, which will air early next year."

Firecracker Films has already begun talking to members of the travelling community to source new subjects for a second series of ratings hit Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.

The series averaged at 9.1 million viewers across its five-week run at the beginning of this year, as it explored the extravagant and often tasteless wedding preparations and celebrations within the gypsy community.

The show's executive producer Jez Wilkins said: 'We are excited about the creative challenge of how to follow up such a successful series.

'We are extremely grateful to all the gypsies and travellers who have opened up their lives to us over the last two years and we look forward to cultivating more relationships going forward.'

Meanwhile, C4's factual entertainment commissioning editor Tina Flintoff called the show a 'phenomenon' and said: 'It would have been very easy for us to just commission more of the same but we wanted to enhance the series by adding more journalism and offering an even deeper insight into the gypsy and traveller way of life.'

As well as featuring new faces and exploring traveller health, family, prejudice and finance issues, the new series will show the weddings and christenings that made it famous and there may even be a return from some of the first series' most popular travellers.