Sitcom about four teenagers growing up in suburbia; a world of futile crushes, sibling brawls, getting drunk too quickly, fancying the girl next door, casting aspersions on your friend's sexuality and riding rollercoasters.

Well spoken Will has to unwillingly change schools after his parents get divorced. Previously enrolled at a private school, where he picked up some snobbish tendencies, Will now has to attend a comprehensive school and make a new set of friends. He soon becomes pals with Simon, Lee and Neil, none of whom are that cool or credible...

At his side is Simon, who is hopelessly besotted with Carli D'Amato and immediately goes along with anything she thinks is cool. Jay, whose boasting stories of impressive exploits and sexual conquests that are just a little too fantastical to believe. And Neil, an easy-going lad who's not the brains of the outfit and whose dad is definitely not gay.

Centred at Rudge Park comprehensive school, the four dysfunctional friends are all desperately trying to work out how to fit in.

In the second series the lads attempt to assert their maturity in a clubbing trip to London. The French exchange student is a bit too much of a threat, and they endure the infamous sociology and geography field trip to Swanage in the hope of finding the legendary Swanage 'MILF'. Work experience week sets up new challenges for Will and Neil and even the underage disco proves socially fatal for them. Facing new tests everyday they also have to deal with the day-to-day traumas of teenage life, families and exams.

Our Review: This comedy is clearly aimed at young adults, but there is still much here for older viewers to laugh at too. Some of the humour does come from quite a simple place (e.g. bad mouthing a teacher when they're standing behind you) but, despite this, the series is hugely likeable. In fact we'd go as far as to say that The Inbetweeners was one of, if not the, top sitcom of 2008 (the show was voted best new sitcom of the year in our annual awards, picked up a BAFTA, and won big at the British Comedy Awards too).

Much of the show's success is down to the fact that the writers have, somehow, managed to capture perfectly what middle-class teenage life really is like (or at least what our teenage years were like).

Forget all the sex and drugs in Skins - for most people, school actually revolved around trying not to get bullied, failing to get served in pubs, embarrassing yourself in front of girls, making hollow sexual boasts, and everything else that the four characters in The Inbetweeners experience.

The show has been such a big hit for Channel 4 that it comes as no surprise to hear that a 3rd series has been ordered. The new episodes will be on E4, then Channel 4 later in 2010. But before that there will be a wacky one-off in which the four lads will travel from Spain across to Gibraltar on a pedalo.