Big Boys
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 2022 - 2024
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Comedy following two mismatched male friends thrown together at university. Stars Dylan Llewellyn, Jon Pointing, Olisa Odele, Izuka Hoyle, Katy Wix and more.
Streaming rank this week: 440
Press clippings Page 5
Big Boys review - this warm, tender comedy will pierce your heart
The growing relationship between two young men, one gay one straight, makes for a genuinely uplifting, witty sitcom.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 26th May 2022Big Boys review: Is Derry Girl star's new comedy worth your time?
Jack Rooke turns tragedy into a thing of beauty.
Abby Robinson, Radio Times, 26th May 2022Big Boys review
Jack Rooke's sprightly comedy will be your next coming-of-age obsession.
Adam White, The Independent, 26th May 2022Big Boys, review
Derry Girls' Dylan Llewellyn stars in this bubbly sitcom that is also a sensitively handled study of friendship and loss.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 26th May 2022Why it's time to celebrate TV's most neglected relationship: the straight best mate
From eyeballing fetishwear at his first Pride to learning to cook, gay writer Jack Rooke shared his youth with his straight best pal. He explains why his new sitcom, Big Boys, pays homage to heterosexual sidekicks.
Jack Rooke, The Guardian, 25th May 2022Jack Rooke on his new Channel 4 comedy Big Boys
The writer of Channel 4's new comedy on finding humour in tragedy and why we still have a long way to go when it comes to tackling mental health.
Anya Ryan, Evening Standard, 25th May 2022I talk to Dylan Llewellyn
"It's an amazing LGBTQ-led show with so much going for it and I'm just glad I got to be a part of it."
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 23rd May 2022Big Boys - a sitcom by Jack Rooke - to be filmed for Channel 4
Channel 4 has ordered Big Boys, a semi-autobiographical sitcom by comedian Jack Rooke about an unlikely friendship between two young men who meet at university.
British Comedy Guide, 26th November 2020