Tuesday, 2nd March 2021 at 5:55 pm Channel 4 has renewed Aisling Bea’s comedy drama This Way Up for a second season, in which Bea plays a woman recovering from a “teeny little nervous breakdown”. Advertisement Season one met with acclaim (read our exclusive This Way Up interview with Aisling Bea here), with critics praising both Bea’s performance as Aine, and Sharon Horgan as her sister Shona. The forthcoming six-parter will follow on from the season one finale, and Bea has described how she was “overwhelmed by the love and support for the show,” with viewers relating to the show’s themes of loneliness and vulnerability.