Fleabag
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2016 - 2019
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Comedy series starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a woman living in London whose life is a mess. Also features Sian Clifford, Bill Paterson, Olivia Colman, Andrew Scott, Brett Gelman and more.
- Series 1, Episode 5 repeated Saturday at 12:30am on BBC3
- Streaming rank this week: 206
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 4
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 11th August 2016
- Time
- 10am
- Channel
- BBC Three
- Length
- 26 minutes, 53 seconds
Repeats
Show past repeats
Date | Time | Channel |
---|---|---|
Sunday 11th September 2016 | 10:00pm | BBC2 |
Wednesday 28th December 2016 | 1:45am | BBC1 |
Wednesday 28th December 2016 | 2:05am | BBC1 Scot |
Friday 25th October 2019 | 11:25pm | BBC1 |
Friday 25th October 2019 | 11:55pm | BBC1 Wales |
Saturday 26th October 2019 | 12:55am | BBC1 Scot |
Tuesday 8th February 2022 | 11:55pm | BBC3 |
Wednesday 9th February 2022 | 3:30am | BBC3 |
Wednesday 3rd August 2022 | 11:00pm | BBC3 |
Thursday 27th October 2022 | 10:40pm | BBC3 |
Monday 22nd May 2023 | 11:55pm | BBC3 |
Tuesday 23rd May 2023 | 2:35am | BBC3 |
Friday 24th November 2023 | 12:00am | BBC3 |
Friday 12th April 2024 | 11:40pm | BBC3 |
Saturday 13th April 2024 | 2:35am | BBC3 |
Cast & crew
Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Fleabag |
Sian Clifford | Claire |
Jenny Rainsford | Boo |
Hugh Dennis | Bank Manager |
Camilla Roholm | Receptionist |
Jenny Galloway | Retreat Leader |
Ben Bailey Smith | Workshop Leader |
Adam Ewan | Nervous Man |
Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Writer |
Vicky Jones | Script Editor |
Harry Bradbeer | Director |
Lydia Hampson | Producer |
Harry Williams | Executive Producer |
Jack Williams | Executive Producer |
Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Executive Producer |
Gary Dollner | Editor |
Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
Kelly Valentine Hendry | Casting Director |
Victor Jenkins | Casting Director |
Alex Irwin | Casting Director |
Tony Miller | Director of Photography |
Jo Thompson | Costume Designer |
Pippa Woods | Make-up Designer |
Isobel Waller-Bridge | Composer |
Helen Ostler | 1st Assistant Director |
Video
Worst road trip ever
Fleabag and Claire are off on a fun, family weekend.
Featuring: Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) & Sian Clifford (Claire).
Press
A few episodes in, there's still time to catch up with the strange, bleak, hilarious Fleabag, lurking on iPlayer. Written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Crashing), the eponymous heroine speaks straight to camera, and is, by turns, cynical, playful, impulsive, bitter, haunted and vulnerable, as she has casual sex with inadequate men, masturbates to Obama speeches, worries that her anus is super-sized, runs her financially ludicrous cafe business (Fleabag has the least realistic sitcom lifestyle since the cast of Friends), sponges from her uptight sister (Sian Clifford), and steals stuff from her odious stepmother (Olivia Colman, dripping passive-aggressive).
There are inevitable comparisons with Sharon Horgan and Lena Dunham, but Waller-Bridge seems determined to plough her own eldritch and mischievous furrow. Last week Fleabag attended a ghastly "Female-only 'Breath of Silence'" retreat, coming across her bank manager (Hugh Dennis) at his own grisly "Better-Man" event ("I'm just a very disappointing man").
At times, Fleabag, still grieving, flashes back to her dead best friend, at which point she's exposed as the walking, talking weeping sore she truly is. Fleabag isn't perfect (this episode was the lightest on belly laughs so far) but it's witty, textured, poignant and offbeat - a hidden gem it would be a pity to miss.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 14th August 2016