Baz promises killer last series
THEY’RE ready to take on more daring stunts overseas and test 71-year-old Nancy Ashmawy’s nerves to the limit.
But even though the show is a financial hit, Baz Ashmawy has insisted the next season of 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy will be the last.
The broadcaster and his mother will set off to film another series of the award-winning daredevil programme next month on a six-week shoot around the world.
Dubliner Baz, 40, told the Irish Daily Mail he was apprehensive about making a third installment, but said the forthcoming series, which has already seen Nancy sky-dive and enter a maximum-security prison, will ensure the Sky show goes out on a high.
‘I was very apprehensive – I was nearly done after season two, because I’m very fond of the series so I didn’t want to hammer it to death,’ he said. ‘But then I spent a couple of months working on it and it’s great.
‘I think... a change I made will make it a different show and more interesting.’
Now available in 100 territories, the show took the prize for Best Non-Scripted Entertainment at 43rd International Emmys last November.
But after suffering setbacks to his career down through the years, such as his 2fm radio gig with Lucy Kennedy getting axed, Baz knows better than to let the success goes to his head.
The half-Egyptian anchor said: ‘I’ve had it and lost it before, so once you’ve been there, you’re thrilled a show is doing well, that’s just the way it goes, but you know that will end and then you move on to what you want to make next. The success of the Emmy is great, but again, it’s just something that sits on your mantelpiece.’
The presenter, who yesterday teamed up with his famous mother in Dublin to launch the Specsavers Sound Check Ireland Roadshow 2016, said that ‘you have to always be thinking about what you want to make next’.
And after the third and final series of 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy is done and dusted, Baz is keen to branch out even further creatively.
‘I would like a comedy drama, to get that written up and out the door,’ he said.
He also said he’d be interested in making a documentary about the refugee crisis.