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The Inbetweeners
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Written byDamon Beesley[1]
Iain Morris[1]
Directed byGordon Anderson
Ben Palmer
Iain Morris
StarringSimon Bird
Joe Thomas
James Buckley
Blake Harrison
Opening themeMorning Runner – "Gone Up in Flames"
Country of originEngland (United Kingdom)
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes12 (list of episodes)
Production
ProducerChristopher Young
Production locationLondon
Camera setupJacob Friett
Running time21-24 minutes
Production companyBwark Productions[2]
Original release
NetworkE4
Release1 May 2008 –
present

The Inbetweeners is a BAFTA award-winning British sitcom about a group of teenage friends struggling through sixth form at school. Written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, the show was originally produced for the digital terrestrial television channel E4.[3] E4 originally aired the first series in May 2008, and Channel 4 also broadcast it in November that year. The series, set in a typical suburb of outer London, follows Will (Simon Bird), who left a private school to go to Rudge Park Comprehensive due to his recently divorced mother's financial troubles.[4]

The term 'inbetweeners' refers to Will and his three classmates (Simon, Neil and Jay) being neither part of the school's trendy 'in-crowd' nor school 'nerds', but somewhere inconsequentially 'inbetween'.

The second series began screening in the United Kingdom on 2 April 2009 and finished on 7 May 2009. A third series was commissioned by E4 and is due to air in September 2010.[5][6]

The show has been nominated for 'Best Situation Comedy' at BAFTA twice, in 2009 and 2010. At the British Academy Television Awards 2010, it won the Audience Award, the only award voted for by viewers.[7]

A film version of the series is currently being produced and sees the cast on holiday in Malia, Crete.[8] Filming began on location in August 2010.[9]

History

Beesley and Morris, a former stand-up comedian, met as producers on Channel 4's The 11 O'Clock Show. Following posts as commissioners at Channel 4, where Morris shepherded Peep Show, the two launched their own company, Bwark Productions, in 2004 and landed their first series with Inbetweeners.[10]

Cast

Main article: List of The Inbetweeners characters

Episodes

Main article: List of The Inbetweeners episodes

Episodes of the first and second season can be viewed by United Kingdom and Irish viewers through Channel 4's service, 4oD,[11] YouTube's Shows program and are also available on SeeSaw. Individual episodes are also available to purchase and download for registered users of the UK iTunes Store.[12]

Location

The Inbetweeners is filmed in various locations, largely in and around Ruislip, Middlesex, predominantly at Ruislip High School, but also in surrounding areas such as Harrow, Edgware, Pinner, Abbots Langley, St Albans, Finchley, Whetstone and Eastcote. Notably, Ruislip High School is not a Sixth Form school. Most of the students in the series are either actual students from the school (who at the time of Series 1 were in year 7/8, seeing as the school only opened in 2007) or paid actors. The first episode of the second series, set in Swanage in Dorset was actually filmed on location in the West Sussex coastal town of Littlehampton. The advertisement for the third series of The Inbetweeners was filmed at London Academy, Edgware.

Music

The opening theme tune to The Inbetweeners is "Gone Up in Flames" by English rock band Morning Runner. The first series also features music by Rachel Stevens, Air Traffic, Calvin Harris, The Ting Tings, Arctic Monkeys, Theaudience, Vampire Weekend, Gorillaz, Hot Chip, Belle & Sebastian, Field Music, Jamie T, The Libertines, Rihanna, The Fratellis, Jack Peñate, Guillemots, The Feeling, Kate Nash, The Wombats, The Cure, Lily Allen, Mumm-Ra, Tellison, Transformer, Sam Isaac and Feist, selected by Xfm DJ Marsha Shandur. The second series also featured Oasis, Biffy Clyro, Passion Pit, Royworld, MGMT, Maximo Park, and The Cribs. A full list can be found on the E4 website.

Film

In September 2009, Beesley and Morris confirmed that a film had been commissioned by Film4.[13] The creators also stated that Simon Bird (Will) and Joe Thomas (Simon) had written a script for the film which was said to be "annoyingly funnier" than theirs.

The film will revolve around the four boys, now eighteen-years-old, going on holiday to Malia, Crete. Shooting for the film began in August 2010 on location in Malia.[9]

Worldwide broadcasting

BBC America began airing The Inbetweeners from 25 January 2010.[14] The network aired both existing series as a single 12 episode television season.

Iain Morris and Damon Beesley have been asked by the American Broadcasting Company to produce a pilot for a US version of the series. They will be head writers for the project. The network has given Morris and Beesley a second blind script commitment for a future project the two will create. Both projects will be made at ABC Studios.[10]

In 2010 The Inbetweeners started airing in Australia on the Nine Network's digital channel GO!, on Super Channel in Canada, on TV2 in New Zealand and MTV Latin America.

Reception

The first series began on 1 May 2008, with the pilot episode garnering 238,000 viewers.[15] The series averaged 459,000 viewers,[16] with 474,000 viewers watching the series finale.[17] The Inbetweeners received two nominations at the British Comedy Awards; the show was nominated for "Best New British Television Comedy (Scripted)" and Simon Bird was nominated for "Best Male Comedy Newcomer".[18] Both won their respective categories.[19] The show was also voted by the British Comedy Guide website as the "Best New British TV Sitcom 2008".[20] It was nominated for "Best Situation Comedy" at the British Academy Television Awards 2009,[2] ultimately losing out to The IT Crowd.[21] It then won the Audience Award at the British Academy Television Awards 2010.[7]

The first episode of series two, which aired on E4 at 10 pm (BST) 2 April 2009, averaged 958,000 viewers,[15] with another 234,000 viewers watching at 11 pm on the time-shift channel E4+1 meaning it was watched by 1.2 million, the highest audience of 2009 for E4.[17]

Joe McNally, writing for The Independent, commends an "exquisitely accurate dialogue, capturing the feel of adolescence perfectly"[22] and Will Dean of The Guardian comments that the show "captures the pathetic sixth-form male experience quite splendidly".[23] The series is often contrasted with E4's successful Teen drama, Skins, commentators noting that The Inbetweeners satirises what teenage years are more frequently like rather than what you would wish them to be.[24]

The third series started filming in April 2010, and took approximately six weeks to complete.[6]

Ratings

Series 1

Air Date Episode Viewers[25] E4
Rank
1 May 2008 First Day 240,000 -
1 May 2008 Bunk Off 321,000 #8
8 May 2008 Thorpe Park 305,000 #10
15 May 2008 Girlfriend 436,000 #8
22 May 2008 Caravan Club 432,000 #6
29 May 2008 Xmas Party 422,000 #7

Series 2

Air Date Episode Viewers
(millions) 		E4
Rank
2 April 2009 The Field Trip (Battered Fish) 1.21 #1
9 April 2009 Work Experience 1.18 #1
16 April 2009 Will's Birthday 1.05 #1
23 April 2009 Night Out in London 1.02 #1
30 April 2009 The Duke of Edinburgh Awards 1.21 #1
7 May 2009 Exam Time 1.21 #2

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b Deacon, Michael (27 March 2009). "Interview: Simon Bird and Joe Thomas on The Inbetweeners". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
  2. ^ a b Nissim, Mayer (24 March 2009). "BAFTA TV Awards 2009: The Nominees". Digital Spy. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
  3. ^ Hanks, Robert (2 May 2008). "Last Night's TV: The Invisibles BBC1, The Inbetweeners E4". The Independent. London: Independent News & Media. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  4. ^ "The Inbetweeners". inthenews.co.uk. 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  5. ^ "The autumn hot list 2010 – 11. The Inbetweeners". The Observer. 29 August 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
  6. ^ a b French, Dan (4 August 2009). "'Inbetweeners' gets third series". digital spy.
  7. ^ a b "The Thick Of It dominates Baftas". BBC News. 6 June 2010. Cite error: The named reference "Ant and Dec win first ever Bafta" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  8. ^ "The Inbetweeners". 2009-09-09.
  9. ^ a b "The Inbetweeners film is on as Simon Bird ends pay row". The Sun. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
  10. ^ a b "The Hollywood Reporter". The Hollywood Reporter. 2008-10-17. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
  11. ^ "What's on Channel 4 on Demand: The Inbetweeners". Channel 4. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  12. ^ Bwark Productions Ltd. "The Inbetweeners., Series 1" (note: Requires iTunes software with UK iTunes Store). iTunes Store. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  13. ^ "Channel 4 develops film of The Inbetweeners". Retrieved 11 September 2009.
  14. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (25 January 2010). "Dreams of a Teenage Loser". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  15. ^ a b French, Dan (3 April 2009). "New 'Inbetweeners' draws 958,000 for E4". Digital Spy. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
  16. ^ West, Dave (5 June 2008). "E4 takes second series of 'Inbetweeners'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  17. ^ a b Rogers, Jon (3 April 2009). "The Inbetweeners makes 1.2m laugh". Broadcast. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
  18. ^ "The Nominees 2008". British Comedy Awards. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  19. ^ "The Winners 2008". British Comedy Awards. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  20. ^ "British Comedy Guide Awards 2008". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
  21. ^ "Bafta TV Awards 2009: The winners". BBC Entertainment. BBC. 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
  22. ^ McNally, Joe (19 May 2008). "You Write The Reviews: The Inbetweeners". The Independent. London: Independent News & Media. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  23. ^ Dean, Will (8 May 2008). "Sitcom surbubia with spots". The Guardian. London: Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  24. ^ Dean, Will (3 April 2009). "The Inbetweeners is more realistic than Skins". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  25. ^ Weekly Top 10 Programmes. Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved on 17 June 2009.
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