Maxxx
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4 / Comedy Blaps / E4
- 2017 - 2020
- 9 episodes (1 series)
Sitcom about a famous boyband star turned drug-shamed tabloid laughing stock. Stars O-T Fagbenle, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Helen Monks, Alan Asaad, Christopher Meloni and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1 - Guess Who's Back?
Notes
For its original April broadcast, this episode was billed with the grammatically incorrect title Guess Whose Back?.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 2nd April 2020
- Time
- 9:30pm
- Channel
- E4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Cast & crew
| O-T Fagbenle | Maxxx |
| Pippa Bennett-Warner | Tamzin |
| Helen Monks | Rose |
| Alan Asaad | Amit |
| Christopher Meloni | Don Wild |
| Jourdan Dunn | Jourdan |
| Javone Prince | Lucky |
| Larry King | Self |
| India Eva Rae | Frankie |
| Katie Lyons | Club Owner |
| Barry Castagnola | Drunk Guy |
| Joshua Grant | Grime Manager |
| Luti Fagbenle | Rico |
| Steve Brody | Doctor |
| Ellen Thomas | Theresa |
| Kim Wall | Priest |
| Jonathan Ross | Self |
| Lemar Obika (as Lemar) | Self |
| O-T Fagbenle | Writer |
| Nick Collett | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Ali Bryer Carron | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Michael Bertenshaw | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Paloma Nunez | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Jim Annan | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Roger Bainbridge | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Kirsten Rasmussen | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Lindsay Mullan | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Carly Heffernan | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Simon Owens | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Rachel Balabanoff | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Kefi Chadwick | Script Editor |
| Bruce Pirrie | Script Editor |
| Mark Evans | Script Editor |
| Jan Carura | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Marlon Palmer | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Tara Ayeni | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Kefi Chadwick | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Tara Ayeni | Script Executive |
| O-T Fagbenle | Director |
| Nick Collett | Director |
| Ali Bryer Carron | Producer |
| Luti Fagbenle | Executive Producer |
| O-T Fagbenle | Executive Producer |
| Stephen Abrahams | Line Producer |
| Stefano Moses | Associate Producer |
| Adam Bokey | Editor |
| John Holloway | Editor |
| Lucienne Suren | Production Designer |
| Sally Broome | Casting Director |
| Shaun Harley Lee | Director of Photography |
| Joanna Hir | Costume Designer |
| Christelle Gbeudjeli | Make-up Designer |
| O-T Fagbenle | Composer |
| Theon Cross | Composer |
| Vince Pope | Composer |
| Carine Nguza | Composer |
| Phil Clarke | Series Consultant |
| Tanya Qureshi | Series Consultant |
| Eno Enefiok | 1st Assistant Director |
| Helen Ostler | 1st Assistant Director |
Press
Maxxx review
O-T Fagbenle delivered a hilarious send-up of the bloated celebrity ego in Maxxx (E4), the sitcom he wrote and stars in, about a washed-up boy band singer trying to revive his career after years of self-indulgent excess.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 3rd April 2020O-T Fagbenle is on career-defining form as washed-up former boyband member Maxxx, looking to relaunch his career and win back the affections of his ex-girlfriend, the supermodel Jourdan Dunn, in this new comedy series. Reduced to playing grimy nightclub PAs after destroying his early 2000s R&B group with his drug-fuelled antics, Maxxx is determined to get his life back on track and support his adopted son Amit - but first he has to convince a public who largely think he's either dead or a Craig David lookalike.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 2nd April 2020Maxxx review
Though a little uneven, the show has a sassy attitude and energy, while the the pacy script is liberally peppered with waspish one-liners.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 2nd April 2020