The highly-rated Netflix series, Sex Education, has been renewed for a third season by the streaming giant. 

Featuring Asa Butterfield as Otis Milburn, an awkward teenager who helps his peers with their sex-related issues, Sex Education was created by Laurie Nunn. 

The announcement about commissioning one more season of the popular series was made by Netflix on Monday. 

Sex Education also features Emma Mackey as Maeve Wiley, Ncuti Gatwa as Eric Effiong, and Gillian Anderson as Otis' sex therapist mother, Jean F Milburn.

The show's second season premiered on Netflix on January 17.