The Inbetweeners
- TV sitcom
- E4
- 2008 - 2010
- 18 episodes (3 series)
An award-winning comedy about four teenagers growing up in suburbia. Stars Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Emily Head and more.
- Series 3, Episode 3 repeated Monday at 12:05am on E4
- Streaming rank this week: 152
Press clippings Page 20
The cult turned mainstream hit is back - and just because our hapless, filthy-mouthed boys are now in the top year of sixth form, it doesn't mean they escape regular humiliation. It all begins again here with a charity fashion show organised by Carli - Jay is jealous that Simon has been asked to model but poor Si ends up showing off far more than he intended on the catwalk.
Sharon Lougher, Metro, 13th September 2010The Inbetweeners: get set for a new term
Whisper it quietly, but there's another returning TV series about to begin which I'm even more excited about than Mad Men - The Inbetweeners on E4.
John Plunkett, The Guardian, 13th September 2010After their surprising win at the Baftas where they picked up the audience award, TV's sex-obsessed sixth-formers have just started shooting their first feature film in the party resort of Malia in Crete.
They return for a third series with a rucksack full of crude schoolboy banter, wardrobe malfunctions and possibly the first use of the word "Simples" in a sitcom. This week, Rudge Park Comp hosts a fashion show and the boys have very different views on it.
Geeky Will (Simon Bird) thinks it's all just politically incorrect vanity, Jay is desperate to strut his stuff, Neil sees it as a prime opportunity for ogling half-dressed girls and Simon is just eager to do whatever the lovely Carli asks him to - even if it means exposing more of himself than he means to when he pulls on a racy pair of Speedos.
Jane Simon, The Mirror, 13th September 2010More power, more shame, more childish fury. What ]The Inbetweeners does best is win jeopardy from the unimportant things. So small issues become enormous, just like when you're at school. So when Simon models in a pair of speedos and has a slight wardrobe malfunction (brilliant prosthetic make up work, by the way), it's really horribly, horribly cringey.
Three series in, they're clearly running into two problems: a) the three protagonists are approaching Fonzie-style age problems in hanging around a school with all those kids and b) the scripts don't seem to have quite as many brilliantly adolescent memes.
Still, a) doesn't really matter, if you're grown-up about fiction. And b) is only true because you expect them to be so good. Really, it is funny.
TV Bite, 13th September 2010A third series of the Bafta-winning sixth form-set series sees Will (Simon Bird) and his friends subjected to further humiliations. The catwalk of a school fashion show is the last place on earth you'd expect to see Will. So, of course, that's where he ends up...
Scott Matthewman, The Stage, 13th September 2010The Inbetweeners: series three, episode one
Let us know what you think of the teenagers' latest cringeworthy escapades in the E4 series.
John Plunkett, The Guardian, 13th September 2010Inbetweeners creator admits he's Will & co-writer's Jay
As Channel 4's funniest sixth-formers return for a third series of drunken fumbling the sitcom's makers tell us how much of The Inbetweeners is based on their own teenage life.
Iain Morris, The Guardian, 11th September 2010The Inbetweeners visit The Sun newspaper
Inbetweeners star Simon Bird used to get grief from parents - while working as a kids' football ref.
The Sun, 11th September 2010The Inbetweeners review: low-brow laughs
For all its limitations, the sharpness of the script and dependable characters manage to continue to appeal to viewers far beyond the section of society it depicts.
Tom Ford, On The Box, 11th September 2010Inbetweeners girls gert top marks
The sexy stars of The Inbetweeners have shown they really are top of the class in this racy shoot.
Cara Lee, The Sun, 7th September 2010