James Corden has announced that he has finished writing the script for the final episode of British comedy Gavin and Stacey.
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Corden, who co-writes the show with Ruth Jones – both of whom also star in the BBC show – told Virgin Radio the script had been finished “a while ago” but had to be tailored. He said:
“Rewriting is really hard. Writing is really fun because you can just say, ‘Anything can happen.’ But when you’re rewriting stuff, you’re dealing with a lot of logistics and ‘Well, look, we might not be able to shoot that, or this has to be in this location, is there a way to change this?’ And honestly, it’s too long. So what we’ve really been doing for the last few weeks is trying to make it as economical as possible. And we finished it yesterday.”
And he said he was emotional about the farewell: