A "first look" image and a clip from the new series of award-winning BBC comedy Alma's Not Normal has been released ahead of its return to TV screens later this year. The first series was met with "huge critical and audience acclaim" and the second edition is returning to BBC Two and iPlayer this autumn with Boltonian Sophie Willan set to dazzle again in the title role. Created, written by, starring and executive roduced by Willan, Alma’s Not Normal centres on Boltonian wild-child, Alma Nuthall and her family of eccentric, unruly women and was Willan's creation in 2018 when she was inaugural winner of the BBC’s Caroline Aherne Bursary Award.
Scenes for the upcoming series were also filmed in Bolton town centre and Horwich, in the Green Machine bike shop. Alma's Not Normal being filmed in Horwich Alma's Not Normal being filmed in Horwich Alma's Not Normal being filmed in Horwich Taking a break from filming in Horwich in October, Sophie told The Bolton News: “I only live 15 minutes away, but it’s always a treat to come home, and it’s lovely to be working here, and employing lots of Boltonians as well. “It’s fabulous.
” The series is returning Sophie was also seen filming in Bolton in 2021 during the filming of the first series in Le Mans Crescent inside Bolton Library and Museum — with "Alma Unit" signs posted on lampposts in the crescent. As excitement builds for the new series, an extract from the first episode in which Alma, Grandma Joan (Lorraine Ashbourn.
