The second series was commissioned before the first had even been screened, apparently due to a positive reaction from the studio audience.
Writer Steven Moffat said of this series:"There's no feeling on earth like working on a show you know is doomed."
The series was chosen by the British newspaper Metro as one of the "10 sitcoms even worse than The Wright Way (2013)".
When the first series was an unexpected failure, production was well underway on the second series and it was too late to cancel it. The BBC "burned off" most of the second series in a post-watershed slot.