BBC3 is bringing back its interactive chatshow Lily Allen and Friends for a second series.
The channel's controller, Danny Cohen, has ordered eight more 45-minute instalments from Princess Productions, the independent producer responsible for the show.

Lily Allen and Friends formed a key part of Cohen's BBC3 relaunch in February but met initially with mixed reviews and disappointing ratings figures.
Opening with 255,000 viewers for the first episode in mid-February, the show fell to a low of 173,000 at the beginning of last month.

But since then it has steadily increased to average around 300,000 viewers for more recent episodes.
The show combines celebrity guests with a risqué mix of provocative clips from the internet.

These have included footage of rutting animals and "YouTube sensations" such as The Gay Barbie Boys.

Other stunts have included Allen stuffing her entire fist in her mouth in front of the show's studio audience, who are billed as her "online friends".

Guests on the first series, which finishes tonight, have included music producer Mark Ronson, actors Cuba Gooding Junior, James Corden and Lacey Turner, and The X Factor judge Louis Walsh.
Cohen said: "I'm delighted that Lily Allen and Friends will be returning for a second series. Lily is a star. She has developed astoundingly well as a TV host in just a few weeks and has established herself as a firm favourite with the young audiences BBC3 targets."

Allen's series attracted negative publicity early on, with the Mail on Sunday claiming that a third of the studio audience for the first programme walked out because they were bored.
The Daily Mirror's Jenna Sloan later wrote about being an audience member: "It was as if the 22-year-old singer has been thrown in at the deep end - and left to drown. Someone could at least have told her that the best chatshow hosts don't keep steering the conversation back to themselves." However, in the Guardian, Mark Lawson praised the opening episode for bringing "a freshness and energy which are rare on TV".

But Lawson said that in later episodes Allen "looked subdued and vulnerable, constantly fiddling and rubbing at an unwise beehive, which was possibly some kind of symbolic tribute to Amy Winehouse".

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