No splitting up this pair! SJP and Sharon’s Divorce gets a third series

DIVORCE, the hit US television show starring Sarah Jessica Parker, has been given a green light for a crucial third series on America’s HBO network.

Written by Meath author and comedian Sharon Horgan, the drama was the Hollywood A-lister Parker’s return to the small screen after the phenomenal success of HBO stablemate Sex And The City.

Divorce has proved to be a big hit with audiences and has broken the two-season longevity test that many shows fail to pass.

Horgan, pictured, has won critical acclaim for the warts-and-all drama which sees Parker in a dark and notvery-likeable role unlike kooky Carrie Bradshaw from SATC. Production on the third season is to begin early next year.

The Golden Globe-nominated show stars Parker and Thomas Haden Church as Frances and Robert, a couple at the centre of the separation.

Ms Horgan spent months crisscrossing the Atlantic in 2016 when she initially dreamed up the series about a woman in the throes of an awful divorce.

Meanwhile, Horgan has been busy shooting the final series of her sitcom Catastrophe this summer.

The funnywoman teamed up with co-star and influential Twitter comedian Rob Delaney to make the single camera romantic comedy about Irish woman and an American man who make a mess of their struggle to fall in love in London.

Ms Horgan, who has two daughters called Sadhbh and Amer, has said her own recollections of her pregnancies were part of the inspiration for the character.

The writer – whose creation Women On The Verge is currently airing on RTÉ2 – has also turned her attention to the world of film.

The talented comedian, 48, a sister of ex-Irish rugby player Shane Horgan, is starring opposite Kristin Scott Thomas in a film called Military Wives, which has just started production.

Military Wives was inspired by a BBC factual series about a choirmaster who trained the wives and girlfriends of soldiers to sing.

Full Monty director Peter Cattaneo will helm the feature, which celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. The military wives edition of BBC factual entertainment series, The Choir, was the jump-off point for the movie.

It culminated in the wives’ choir performing a sell-out performance at the Royal Albert Hall in front of Queen Elizabeth in 2011.