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.
Press clippings
Edinburgh TV Awards 2021 results
We Are Lady Parts, Rob And Romesh Vs, Joe Lycett's Got Your Back and O-T Fagbenle have won in the Edinburgh TV Awards 2021.
British Comedy Guide, 21st October 2021Comedies in the running for Edinburgh TV Festival Awards 2021
Bloods, Brassic, Motherland, Starstruck, Trying and We Are Lady Parts are amongst the nominees for the Edinburgh TV Festival Awards 2021.
British Comedy Guide, 8th September 2021How sitcoms got less white, less male, and funnier
In the Nineties, British sitcoms hit a dead end. Now, they're where our most exciting and original TV happens.
Tom Nicholson, Esquire, 20th July 2021Royal Television Society Awards 2021 nominations
Brassic, Sex Education, The Young Offenders, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Sophie Willan, Ruth Jones, Youssef Kerkour, O-T Fagbenle and Paul Chahidi are amongst the nominees for the RTS Programme Awards 2021.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd March 2021Maxxx review - can a tired hasbeen take on the charts?
After several false starts, O-T Fagbenle's satirical comedy finally arrives to shine new light on to the well-worn topic of celebrity excess and post-fame blues.
Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 5th November 2020The 30 shows to look forward to this autumn
Includes comedies The Duchess, Spitting Image and Taskmaster.
Phil Harrison and Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 29th August 2020E4 delays broadcasts of Maxxx
Maxxx, O-T Fagbenle's new sitcom about a former boyband star, has been removed from the E4 schedules at short notice, to be broadcast later in the year instead.
British Comedy Guide, 9th April 2020Maxxx 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