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Netflix to premiere Man vs Baby with Rowan Atkinson on Dec 11, 2025

Published 8 October 2025

Netflix will premiere Man vs Baby, a fourpart comedy starring Rowan Atkinson, on December 11, 2025, the streamer announced as it released firstlook festive images from the series. The four 30minute episodes reunite Atkinson with the character Trevor Bingley, the beleaguered housesitter he played in 2022’s Man vs Bee, and move the action to a luxury London penthouse over the Christmas period.

The new series follows Trevor after the hightech mansion debacle of Man vs Bee. Having left housesitting for a quieter life as a school caretaker, he accepts a lucrative shortterm job looking after a penthouse during the holidays. On the last day of term, when no one returns to collect the Baby Jesus from the school nativity, Trevor unexpectedly finds himself caring for an infant while trying to protect the penthouse. The official synopsis asks, "With a penthouse to protect and a baby to burp, will Trevor be able to have the calm Christmas he hopes for, or will festivities descend into chaos"

Atkinson and writer Will Davies created the series together. Davies and Chris Clark serve as executive producers, Kate Fasulo is series producer and David Kerr directs. Production on Man vs Baby began...

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