Inbetweeners, The
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Synopsis
The record breaking comedy series and theatrical #1.

This is E4’s first ever sitcom, written by Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, produced by Chris Young (Festival) and commissioned by Caroline Leddy at Channel 4 (Phoenix Nights, Black Books, Green Wing).

Will McKenzie is on a bad run. His parents have just divorced and, to make matters worse, his mum has moved him from a posh private school and into the sixth form at the local comprehensive.



Despite the twin handicaps of being the new kid and carrying ‘an actual briefcase’, Will quickly makes new friends – Simon (Joe Thomas), Neil (Blake Harrison) and Jay (James Buckley). Unfortunately, they are far from the coolest kids at school. Together they attempt to navigate the perils of sixth form life – namely the school nutter, Mark “I’ll rip your throat out” Donovan (Henry Lloyd Hughes), and the psychotic head of year, Mr Gilbert (Greg Davies) – while trying to make girls, like the gorgeous Carli D’Amato (Emily Head), ‘notice them for who they really are’. Which is a bad move, because they are idiots.



Over the course of their first term alone, the boys roll call of dishonour includes; accidentally hitting a disabled girl in the face with a Frisbee, drunkenly puking on a seven year old child, gate crashing a funeral cortege in Simon’s tiny, bright yellow car, and calling Neil’s dad a ‘bumder’.

Duration
6 x 30'
Definition
SD
Genre
Comedy
Subgenre
Series
Producer
Bwark Productions
Awards

Best New TV Comedy, British Comedy Awards 2008

Best Male Comedy Newcomer (Simon Bird) British Comedy Awards 2008

Best New British TV Sitcom, The Comedy.co.uk Awards 2008

Best Comedy Show, TV Quick & TV Choice Awards 2009

Nominated for Best Situation Comedy, British Academy Television Awards 2009

Best TV Show, NME Awards 2010

Nominated for Best Situation Comedy, British Academy Television Awards 2010

YouTube Audience Award, British Academy Television Awards 2010

Best Situation Comedy, Rose d'Or Awards 2010

Best Sitcom, British Comedy Awards 2011

Digital Choice National Television Awards 2011

Nominated for Best Scripted Comedy, Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards 2011

Nominated for Best Comedy, Broadcasting Press Guild TV Awards 2011 Nominated for Best Male Performance - James Buckley, BAFTA TV Awards 2011 Winner - Best Comedy Series - Broadcast Awards 2012

Press
'Deliciously vile' -The Guardian 'What was astonishing was that it made me laugh. Not just once but quite a lot, repeatedly...the script is tight and witty and filthy and doesn't sag. I think the key to it being sort of brilliant is that all TV comedians have a relentless arrested development and are pitifully juvenile. So when you see real adolescents telling jokes and being disgusting, it turns out to be actually funny. The main character, the public schoolboy, is a Mini-Me version of David Mitchell.' -The Sunday Times 'The smutty, fitfully funny, schoolboy comedy moves over from E4 in the same week as series three of Skins, sparking inevitable discussion about which offers the more realistic depiction of teenage life.' -The Guardian 'Jaw droppingly discomfiting and achingly truthful, the (all-too-brief) highs and (all-too-prolonged) lows of teen life are plumbed for comedy value in this excellent schoolbased show as briefcase-wielding nerd Will and his classmates relentlessly mock each other's humiliations. In other words, Schadenfreude of the highest order.' -The Independent 'The Inbetweeners is comedy of the highest quality while also puerile, disgusting and faintly inappropriate.The Inbetweeners is age-defying because it contains the universal truth that at 17, you are seldom serious, tragic or deep anywhere other than in your own mind.' -Broadcast Magazine 'A deserved hit when series one was shown last year...' -The Telegraph
Ratings

The Inbetweeners, Series 1, aired from Thursday 1st May 2008 at 10pm on E4: Episode 1: 295,900 viewers, 1.69% market share Episode 2: 321,300 viewers, 2.30% market share Episode 3: 305,300 viewers, 1.80% market share Episode 4: 436,300 viewers, 2.53% market share Episode 5: 432,300 viewers, 2.50% market share Episode 6: 422,000 viewers, 2.28% market share The Inbetweeners, Series 1 re-run, aired from Thursday 14th May 2009 at 10pm on E4: Episode 1: 638,100 viewers, 3.35% market share Episode 2: 563,000 viewers, 3.03% market share Episode 3: 528,000 viewers, 2.60% market share Episode 4: 620,000 viewers, 2.99% market share Episode 5: 653,000 viewers, 3.30% market share Episode 6: 591,700 viewers, 3.01% market share The Inbetweeners, Series 2, aired from Thursday 2nd April at 10pm on E4: Episode 1: 1.21 million viewers, 6.40% market share Episode 2: 1.18 million viewers, 6.04% market share Episode 3: 1.05 million viewers, 5.25% market share Episode 4: 1.02 million viewers, 5.44% market share Episode 5: 1.21 million viewers, 6.50% market share Episode 6: 1.21 million viewers, 6.44% market share