Zawe Ashton interview

TV Choice caught up with Zawe Ashton at the start of a new term at Manchester Medlock University...

Greg McHugh interview

As anticipation for the second series of Fresh Meat reaches dangerous levels, Digital Spy caught up with Greg McHugh to ask what's coming up in the new episodes, whether he's a fan of The Inbetweeners and how the success of Jack Whitehall's Bad Education has gone down with the team...

Zawe Ashton interview

The Fresh Meat star on working in a cinema in Hackney, growing up on British television and moving to LA next year.

Zawe Ashton interview

She's the drug-addled, foul-mouthed student who steals the show in Channel 4's Fresh Meat, but Zawe Ashton is a lot more nuanced than her character. Now the actress is starting to put her own strongly-held opinions into words for stage and screen.

Fresh Meat wins Televisual award

Peep Show creators Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain came up with the goods once more with Fresh Meat, following the exploits of six students in a shared house off-campus.

Radio Times review

The 32nd best TV show of 2011 according to the Radio Times.

This comedy from the creators of Peep Show was an ever so slightly more grown-up, self-assured successor to The Inbetweeners. It even starred an Inbetweener: actor Joe Thomas playing yet another gaffe-prone, luckless-in-love student. And like its puerile younger brother, Fresh Meat had both teens and their middle-aged parents guffawing at the misadventures of its protagonists, six gauche undergraduates. Side-splitting moment? Swaggering public schoolboy JP (stand-up comic Jack Whitehall, proving he's adept at more than one-liners in his first acting role) bonding with a dying horse after over-indulging.

"It's going to be rape, yah." When a character expresses enthusiasm in this way, he better be a complete spanner and the show better be good. Thankfully both JP and the student comedy Fresh Meat - just finished its first run, more please - delivered.

Fresh Meat's finale was touching and amusing

As Fresh Meat's first series drew to a close, Jack Whitehall proved his acting worth in a satisfying - and touching - final episode.

Fresh Meat, 1.8 - series finale

It wasn't the best way to end Fresh Meat's first series, but I'm nevertheless glad Channel 4 have renewed this show for another series.

The best new British series of 2011 ends tonight and already we're impatient for series two.

After her riveting critique of Salman Rushdie last week, Vod is now on the brink of being kicked out of uni, which would be unthinkable. Without her, Fresh Meat would just be a rather sad bunch of students.

Vod - a female cross between Peep Show's Super Hans and Fonzie from Happy Days - is the lightning rod radiating coolness over the entire house.

And even if she has learned nothing about English this term, there are signs that she and her housemates have absorbed some other valuable lessons.

This series has been all the better for letting some serious moments trickle into the comedy - like those little flashes of soberness you get when you're drunk - and there's an unexpected outbreak of what can only be described as ­kindness in tonight's episode.

Don't worry, though. As end of term looms, the ­awkwardness of student life is hilariously exposed, never more weirdly so than when Oregon and Professor Shales host a dinner party in their new love nest.