Look Around You
- TV comedy
- BBC Two
- 2002 - 2005
- 14 episodes (2 series)
Series spoofing 1970s and 80s eductional films and future technology TV programmes. Stars Peter Serafinowicz, Robert Popper, Olivia Colman, Josie D'Arby and Nigel Lambert
Press clippings
7 British comedies you've never seen but really should
Here are 7 shows from this odd little country that prove that we're more than a nation of pie-eating, French-hating pig farmers with pictures of the Queen in our toilets. Or loos, as we call them.
Harry Alexander, Comedy To Watch, 4th August 202113 modern TV comedies set in the 80s and 90s
Here are thirteen other modern TV comedies set in the recent past...
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 16th February 2018Robert Popper looks back on Look Around You
A collection of ten-minute shorts satirising 1980s educational films. Even Look Around You's co-creator Robert Popper admits the concept for the first series of the BBC Two show was a tad niche.
Finlay Greig, i Newspaper, 12th October 2017Ask the expert: Robert Popper (writer and producer)
I asked Robert a few questions about his past and current projects in order to learn more about his creative processes...
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 31st August 2016Look Around You box set review
How do you shave raspberries? What's a Bakerloo bell jar? How do you make sulphagne? The mysteries of the universe are revealed in these hilarious spoof 'educational modules'
George Bass, The Guardian, 28th January 2016BFI celebrate 10 years of Look Around You
Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper are heading to the BFI in January for a special Q&A session to celebrate the ten years since the comedy science spoof Look Around You hit the screens.
Such Small Portions, 19th December 2011