Summer Heights High creator and star Chris Lilley’s spinoff Ja’mie: Private School Girl has only just premiered in the US, but he’s already announced that another character from Summer Heights will front a new show. Lilley tweeted a confirmation of a BBC story that Lilley character Jonah Takalua will be getting his own show.
Takalua, a rowdy 14-year-old schoolboy, was expelled from Summer Heights High at the end of that series, and sent to live with his extended family in Tonga. The new series will find “Jonah in the midst of island life and experiencing the familiar frustrations of a bored teenage delinquent.†The series is due to air in Australia and the UK in 2014. In the US, HBO has aired Lilley’s three most recent series, though they haven’t announced if when they’ll be airing the Takalua spinoff.