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The Inbetweeners. Image of Will Mackenzie (Simon Bird). Image credit: Bwark Productions.

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Series 2 to follow in 2009

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The Inbetweeners

Series 2 to follow in 2009.

A hit comedy about four teenagers growing up in suburbia. E4's first-ever original UK sitcom commission. A second series has been ordered

AKA:
Baggy Trousers (Working Title)
Genre:
Sitcom
Broadcast:
2008  (E4)
Episodes:
6 (1 series)
Starring:
Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Emily Head, Belinda Stewart-Wilson, Robin Weaver, Martin Trenaman, Victoria Willing, David Schaal, Alex MacQueen
Writers:
Damon Beesley, Iain Morris
Production:
Bwark Productions

Sitcom about four teenagers growing up in suburbia; a world of futile crushes, sibling brawls, getting drunk too quickly, fancying the girl next door, casting aspersions on your friend's sexuality and riding rollercoasters.

Well spoken Will has to unwillingly change schools after his parents get divorced. Previously enrolled at a private school, where he picked up some snobbish tendencies, Will now has to attend a comprehensive school and make a new set of friends. He soon becomes pals with Simon, Lee and Neil, none of whom are that cool or credible.

Our Review: This comedy is clearly aimed at teenagers, but there is still much here for older viewers to laugh at. Some of the humour does come from quite a simple place (e.g. bad mouthing a teacher when they're standing behind you), but despite this the series is very likeable. In fact we'd go as far as to say that The Inbetweeners is one of the top sitcoms of 2008.

Much of the show's success must be down to the fact that the writers have managed to capture perfectly what middle-class teenage life really is like, or at least what our teenage years were like.

Forget all the sex and drugs in Skins, for most people school actually revolves around trying not to get bullied, failing to get served in pubs, embarrassing yourself in front of girls, making hollow sexual boasts and everything else the four characters in The Inbetweeners experience.

Following so many glowing reviews, it is perhaps not that surprising to hear that C4 have ordered a second series of this comedy - personally, we can't wait!