Ill Behaviour. Image shows from L to R: Nadia (Lizzy Caplan), Joel (Chris Geere), Charlie (Tom Riley), Tess (Jessica Regan). Copyright: Fudge Park
Ill Behaviour

Ill Behaviour

  • TV comedy drama
  • BBC iPlayer
  • 2017
  • 3 episodes

Comedy drama written by Sam Bain about kidnapping a friend to administer chemotherapy. Also features Chris Geere, Jessica Regan, Tom Riley, Lizzy Caplan, Christina Chong and more.

Press clippings

Cancer comedy Ill Behaviour is a brilliant fantasia

I admit it: They got me. I love Ill Behaviour. I love it!

Amy Glynn, Paste Magazine, 13th November 2017

BBC dark comedy Ill Behaviour finds home on showtime

Gross-out humor and cancer--do they blend?

Glenn Garvin, Reason, 10th November 2017

Ill Behaviour: Showtime importing BBC comedy-thriller

Showtime is importing the BBC comedy-thriller Ill Behaviour stateside, premiering the six-part series as early as next month.

Ray Flook, Bleeding Cool, 4th October 2017

Ill Behaviour Series 1 review

Drastic and outlandish, Sam Bain's Ill Behaviour is a punchy comedic rollercoaster.

Moody Comedy, 19th September 2017

Ill Behaviour, released in splurge-form on iPlayer, is that rather rare thing, a comedy about cancer. Its from the pen of Peep Show's Sam Bain, features similar semi-likable misfits, and despite some grinding of gears, ultimately succeeds in treating both cancer, and comedy, in grown-up fashion.

What the plot lacked in anything approaching credibility it more than made up in its skewering of "alternative" medicine, god rot it. Coming after weeks in which staff at Great Ormond Street have had death threats from courageous keyboard warriors, a choice corrective, with some delicious lines, and also Lizzy Caplan.

Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 30th July 2017

Review, Ill Behaviour, iPlayer

Ill Behaviour is written by Peep Show's co-creator Sam Bain, but if anyone is expecting a laugh-a-minute sitcom about flatsharing misfits think again. Ill Behaviour is far more ambitious and original than that. Not as funny as Peep Show, but then I don't think that is its intention.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th July 2017

Ill Behaviour, review

The chuckles are broad but the grisly nihilism is rather unpalatable.

Ed Power, The Telegraph, 22nd July 2017

Why Peep Show's Sam Bain made cancer-com Ill Behaviour

The comedy writer describes the awkward Britishness and radical thinking that informed his new series, in which a man with Hodgkin's lymphoma is locked in a cellar by his best friends.

Sam Bain, The Guardian, 21st July 2017

Ill Behaviour review

Countless series have used the disease as an exploitative shortcut to sadness but it is encoded into every scene of this new funny and relentlessly immoral thriller.

Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 20th July 2017

Details revealed about new BBC comedy Ill Behaviour

Details have been revealed about Ill Behaviour, the new comedy drama by Sam Bain about a man with cancer.

British Comedy Guide, 16th February 2017

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