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'The Inbetweeners' In The Press...A chat with Neil from 'Inbetweeners' Since it was announced that The Inbetweeners had been handed a third series, we've been waiting patiently for the laughs to begin again. Sadly, we recently learnt that filming for the new run doesn't begin until March - meaning it could be aaaaaaages until Will, Simon, Jay and Neil are back on our screens. To help pass the time, Tube Talk got on the blower to Blake Harrison to talk girlfriends, gay dads and those movie rumours. Written by Dan French. Digital Spy, 26th January 2010 James Buckley hints at 'Inbetweeners' end James Buckley has hinted that The Inbetweeners may end after its upcoming third series. Written by Dan French. Digital Spy, 21st January 2010 In what can only be described as an editorial oversight, The Inbetweeners was absent from our Best of 2008 lineup. However, thanks to much hilarity from Simon Bird and co (who can forget the night out in London?), the E4 comedy has rocketed into our chart this year at a respectable No.4. Impressive ratings and a more realistic take on teenage life (Skins, we're looking at you) have secured the show a third series... and potential movie. TV Preview: 'The Inbetweeners 3' An interview with The Inbetweeners co-writer Iain Morris to find out how production on Series 3 is progressing. Written by Dan French. Digital Spy, 1st December 2009 Matt Smith rejected for 'Inbetweeners' Matt Smith unsuccessfully auditioned for The Inbetweeners prior to landing his iconic Doctor Who role. Written by Dan French. Digital Spy, 27th November 2009 Inbetweeners Simon: I'm just as bad as they are Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas reckons he has the same luck with women as the hapless characters in the hit show. Written by Stuart Pink. The Sun, 15th November 2009 Inbetweeners movie being written The writers of E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners have confirmed they are penning a film version of the series. Press Association, 8th September 2009 The award-winning sitcom The Inbetweeners screeched towards the end of their second series. Two of the leading lads dropped their AS level revision in favour of futile skirt-chasing. For another, playing games-console footie constituted studying (it was PE, right?). The fourth, nerdy Will, drank so many energy drinks that his bowel exploded during his exam. Inbetweeners in dark over show The stars of The Inbetweeners were left flummoxed today after news broke that a third series of the popular show had been commissioned - before producers told them about it. The Sun, 4th August 2009 During a recent night out, tvBite was reduced to hysterics by a member of the office making friends with a former monk. It's testament to The Inbetweeners that we poked fun using their "Friend. Football friend" nonsense. Anyway, it's been a great series and somehow, the writing seems to have become even closer to the sixth form we remember, even as the stars start to look more and more Fonzie. We hope they'll do a new series, even if they are 40. The final episode sees Will on the verge of an absolute disaster and Jay having a real, not made-up, girlfriend. The Inbetweeners to get third series E4 commissions more episodes of critically acclaimed sitcom about four teenagers growing up in suburbia. Written by John Plunkett. The Guardian, 4th August 2009 Anyone lucky enough to have taken part in the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme will remember the disappointment felt upon realising that it doesn't just involve going camping with actual real girls, but going out and doing good deeds. Will and the rest of The Inbetweeners learn this the hard way after Will starts a DofE scheme and ropes them into helping out at a nursing home. This act of community goodwill descends into Jay being caught copping a very good look at a young picture of an old dear. Oh dear. Deliciously vile. If it hadn't been such a deathly week on the box, I might never have seen The Inbetweeners. I would never have seen it because it's a horrible title that implies a reality show about pre-op transsexuals, and because it's billed as a comedy series. It turned out to be Grange Hill with irony and swearing. The Inbetweeners are those awkward years betwixt kid and adolescent, that moment when you've just been given puberty but haven't learnt how to play it yet. In television terms, it's that gap between Torchwood and Skins, a vehicle for actors who look younger than they are. 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. A thoroughly deserved second series for Iain Morris and Damon Beesley's award-winning teen sitcom, first shown on E4. The four Inbetweeners are back in hapless form as they embark on a sociology/geography trip to Swanage. In between them setting off and getting stuck on a boat in the harbour, Will and Simon fall for the same new girl, while Jay and Neil embarrass themselves. It may be crass but it's just as often sweet, hilarious and, sadly, realistic. Overall, too many episodes of The Inbetweeners fall flat at the last hurdle to be considered truly successful, but at least none of the adventures are totally boring. The dialogue revels in its ugliness and the main characters are engaging and sympathetic. Now, if they could only just deepen the plots, flesh out the girls, and paint the adults with a bit more sincerity... Written by Dan Owen. Dan's Media Digest, 9th June 2009 Booze, birds and the time of their lives - that's just what the four lads in E4's real-world answer to Skins aren't having. 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. Inbetweeners is costing lads sex Inbetweeners stars say their bumbling TV characters are putting their off-screen sex lives in danger. The actors say girls cringe at the sight of them because of their antics on the E4 comedy. The Sun, 15th May 2009 Video chat: 'The Inbetweeners' lads We caught up with the boys earlier this week for a ham sarnie and a chat about naked scenes, E4 teen rival Skins, and a cheeky bit of clunge. Written by Dan French. Digital Spy, 14th May 2009 Is it a crime to howl with laughter at a grubby teenage lad pleasuring himself over a vintage pic of an old lady in a nursing home? Well then lock me up and throw away the key, because you don't go in to The Inbetweeners expecting to have your intellectual parameters stretched, even if that does sound rather sexy. What you do get is the best laugh on British TV. Keith Watson, Metro, 7th May 2009 Katy Brand and Inbetweeners to air in US BBC America has acquired the broadcast rights to ITV2 sketch comedy Katy Brand's Big Ass Show and E4 comedy The Inbetweeners. Both shows, which each comprise two 6 x 30-minutes series, are scheduled to broadcast on the cable network later this year. Written by Will Hurrell. Broadcast, 21st April 2009 The second series of this witty sitcom about the shenanigans of less-than-cool teenage boys is certainly matching the first season. Tonight it's work experience week and a mix-up at school leaves Will (Simon Bird) at a garage where, he announces, he's "too clever" to work. The Inbetweeners is comedy of the highest quality while also puerile, disgusting and faintly inappropriate. It has sparked a debate as to whether it or Skins is more "realistic". In terms of realism, that's easy - The Inbetweeners is streets ahead with a cast of misshapen youths whose lives have the mundanities and embarrassments of most teenage existences. Skins, however, portrays teenagers as they think they are - serious, tragic, deep, and drifting through life to a Now that's What I Call Emo soundtrack. The anti-Skins sitcom following a gang of social rejects at a comprehensive school, complete with crude humour galore and a host of acute and nostalgic observations as the boys embark on the joys of a geography field trip to Swanage. The Inbetweeners is more realistic than Skins The Inbetweeners' portrayal of dull suburbia is closer to the drab teen years most of us spent, rather than the decadent time we wished we spent. Written by Will Dean. The Guardian, 3rd April 2009 A rollicking teen comedy, the show revolves around Will and his gang of geeky friends. Will's basically an (even) shorter David Mitchell: posh, calamity-stricken and with a tendency to lodge his foot somewhere in the vicinity of his tonsils. He - for those who skipped the first series - used to be educated privately, but is currently roughing it in a comprehensive thanks to his mum who, he said ,"hasn't scraped enough money together to send him to his old, frankly better school". I know, I know: what a nob, right? Well, yes - except for the fact that he's rather likeable - likeable to the audience, at any rate, if not to the female population of his school. In last night's episode, the class got sent off on a geography trip. Cue lots of Jolly-Boys-style misdemeanors and school-level smut. While this comedy is crude, and the pursuit of girls is often at the centre of the action, it works because, despite all that, you can sense that its heart is truly in the right place - Coming Of Age it ain't, in fact its closest relative is probably Peep Show. Written by Anna Lowman. TV Scoop, 3rd April 2009 The arrival of the second series of The Inbetweeners, which charts the halpess misadventures, sexual and otherwise, of a bunch of suburban youths, is something to cheer. Thanks to the huggably hormonal presence of Simon Bird and Joe Thomas, The Inbetweeners catches the horny horrors of adolescence spot on without resorting to saying 'knob' every ten seconds. It's like Skins used to be. Keith Watson, Metro, 3rd April 2009 'Anti-Skins' comedy series returns School sitcom The Inbetweeners is back for a second series on Thursday night. Newsbeat talks to two of its stars about comparisons to Skins, the future of the show and getting spotted in toilets. BBC Newsbeat, 2nd April 2009 Now that Skins has finished, and hopefully gone off to give itself a good talking to about the ratio of attention it gives to the bad characters and the good ones, E4 has gone all comedy-obsessed on a Thursday. The London Paper talks the star of The Inbetweeners. Written by Malcolm Mackenzie. The London Paper, 2nd April 2009 Taking the place of Skins in the yoof slot, but not as archly/implausibly cool, The Inbetweeners returns for a second series. This is a show about the sort of kids who were in all of your classes but you can't remember them when they add you on Facebook. This first episode features two of school's most exciting events: a field trip and the arrival of a new girl. The geography trip to Swanage does nothing to enthuse the lads; the opposite is true of shiny new student Lauren. Will takes an immediate shine to her but it turns out she only has eyes for Simon. Such is life. Pervy jokes and pervier teachers mean that after watching this you'll be laughing - and longing for that crush from class 2B. New series of the award-winning comedy about a group of awkward teens. Outrageous parties, drug-propelled japes and endless sexy romps. Frustration, boredom and unrequited crushes. The first is the Skins view of a teenager's life, the second is pretty much what everyone else experiences and is also the perspective of this sparkling comedy. In tonight's opener, Will and his mates expect a field trip to include success with Charlotte, the new girl at school. Wrong! What's On TV, 2nd April 2009 A deserved hit when series one was shown last year, this sitcom returns for a second season. Revolving around four teenage lads who are neither cool nor popular, it's like a nerd's version of Skins. When new girl Lauren (Jayne Wisener) joins the school, Will (Simon Bird) makes a play for her but, embarrassingly, finds she prefers Simon (Joe Thomas). Simon Bird and Joe Thomas Interview Forget Skins. The Inbetweeners is a geeky sitcom that shows British teenagers as they really are. Written by Michael Deacon. The Telegraph, 27th March 2009 Thursday nights at ten are fast becoming teen hour on E4. We've recently come to the end of ten weeks of Skins, and now we're going to be getting The Inbetweeners from next Thursday. The Inbetweeners, if you haven't seen it, is like a British American Pie, full of gross-out humour and stupid stuff. What sets it apart from its BBC Three contemporary Coming Of Age is that it actually has some charm, some characters that you can like and some funny lines. It has also won a British Comedy Award, so there. Inbetweeners - The latest teenage pick The Inbetweeners is the latest series to show that British TV is challenging America in the teen market. And young viewers love it. Written by Julian Hall. The Independent, 27th March 2009 I kind of liked The InBetweeners. Okay, it was on E4, the watching of which, as Stewart Lee pointed out this week in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, is normally like connecting a giant sewage pipe to your house. But it was surprisingly funny for a show aimed at "young adults" and was a refreshing antidote to Skins' über-coolness, principally thanks to its more realistic premise: four blokes who aren't quite nerds but who aren't popular, trying to be cool but failing. Previously seen on E4, this likeably juvenile sixth form sitcom might not be as cool as Skins but it is a million miles better than BBC3's similarly themed Coming Of Age. Morris, Beesley prepping U.S. version of their U.K. hit Iain Morris and Damon Beesley are working on a US pilot of their hit UK show, The Inbetweeners Written by Nellie Andreeva. Hollywood Reporter, 17th October 2008 At first glance, The Inbetweeners doesn't seem like very much. In the current climate of comedies and comedy-dramas meant to appeal to the adolescent college-graduate-in-waiting, headed by the effervescent Skins, it comes in as a sort of awkward cousin to the King that is Skins. But, The Inbetweeners should not be written off as a copycat of its E4 relation. I detest E4's excuse for a teen drama, Skins, so I went into The Inbetweeners with some trepidation. Since Shameless (still arguably the best teen drama on TV), Channel 4 has tried (and failed) to replicate its success with Skins and Almost Famous and I assumed this was just another of their attempts to scrape that barrel. The rude, juvenile comedy in The Inbetweeners proved sharper [than The Invisibles]. Posh sixth-former Will has landed at a suburban comprehensive. At first his classmates hate him, but he blithely ignores their insults and insinuates himself into a group of foul friends. He is a brilliant teenage mix: insouciant, confident, vicious, scared and offended when all the boys fantasise about having sex with his mother. "She's so sexy she could be a prostitute," one observes. The actors look so much older than 17. Television loves a geek. There's Sid in Skins, while Reaper and Chuck have both given power to the nerd. Now there's Will in The Inbetweeners. E4's first sitcom about a group of cherry-popping quest, is aimed at teens. But the writers are in their 30s and the cast are blatantly in their 20s. Nothing rings true, and there are few proper jokes: flat gross-out humour and age-old geek/bully stuff take their place. Radio Times, 1st May 2008 The first episode of new E4 comedy The Inbetweeners is rubbish. The second one is brilliant. This review is going to be confusing. |
