Much-loved British comedy series set to return to ITV for fourth season
A much-loved British comedy series is set to return to TV screens soon.
Mr Bean: An Animated Series, which is voiced and executive produced by real Mr Bean creator Rowan Atkinson, has been commissioned for a fourth season. Set to air in 2025, it will be available to watch on ITV and ITVX in the UK, as well as Warner Bros Discovery worldwide.
Kids and adults alike are in for a treat as Mr Bean returns with his trusty sidekick Teddy as they embark on a series of adventures across 52 new episodes while making plenty of mischief along the way. It comes 35 years after the original live-action Mr Bean was co-created by Rowan and film director Richard Curtis, who has since gone on to become famous for movies like Four Weddings And A Funeral, Love Actually, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones.
Since the animated series began in 2002, it has been broadcast globally across 195 territories and racked up billions of views on YouTube and millions of followers on its social media accounts making Mr Bean more popular than the likes of Justin Bieber.
Mr. Bean: The Animated Series is back for a new season in 2025 (Tiger Aspects Productions/ITV)Speaking about the animated series, Rowan said: “I have always enjoyed this iteration of the Mr Bean character and the particular freedoms he has in animated form. We can take him into space or down a tin mine, without me personally having to suffer the consequences. The animated process creatively is always fascinating and I’m looking forward to getting stuck into the new series very much.”
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But when it came to playing Mr Bean in real life, the 68-year-old admits he didn’t enjoy it quite as much as he found it "stressful and exhausting". He shared: "I don't much enjoy playing him. The weight of responsibility is not pleasant. I find it stressful and exhausting, and I look forward to the end of it. I don't actually like the process of making anything - with the possible exception of Blackadder, because the responsibility for making that series funny was on many shoulders, not just mine."
Mr Bean creator Rowan Atkinson says he much prefers voicing the iconic character to playing him (ITV)The actor first debuted the childish character, accompanied by his brown teddy bear and yellow Mini, in his self-titled sitcom in January 1990 and it has been a global phenomenon, spawning films, books and his animated series ever since.
Rowan previously told the Radio Times: "Having made an animated TV series, we're now in the foothills of developing an animated movie for Mr Bean - it's easier for me to perform the character vocally than visually. Mr Bean's success has never surprised me. Watching an adult behaving in a childish way without being remotely aware of his inappropriateness is fundamentally funny. The fact the comedy is visual rather than verbal means it has been successful internationally, too.”
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