Benidorm creator Derren Litten has quit writing comedies to open a karaoke bar in the resort where the ITV sitcom was based.
He is calling the club Mateo’s after the ITV show’s greasy romeo barman, and he has promised that cast members including Jake Canuso himself will pop up.
Referring to his latest canned BBC show, he told fans on Twitter: “I genuinely thought Scarborough was some of my best work and if it’s not what TV channels are looking for then maybe I should do something completely different. “So I made a decision to step away from making TV programmes for a while.” ITV cancelled Benidorm in 2018 after 10 series.
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