The multi award-winning show returns to E4 on the 13th of September in its third hotly anticipated series.  

The Inbetweeners follows the often misguided footsteps of four friends, Will, Simon, Neil and Jay, as they try to navigate their way through sixth form, with their hormones running riot.

Often described as ‘a British American Pie’, The Inbetweeners delves deep into the psyche of the British teenage boy to discover equal amounts of lust, sick and cheap lager. None of our heroes are exceptional, all are distinctly average. And trying to convince the world they are sophisticated, sexy human beings usually ends in wretched disaster.

Spawning phrases such as ‘clunge,’ ‘bus wankers,’ ‘spaff’ and ‘briefcase wanker’ The Inbetweeners has become iconic and manages to reflect the minefield that sixth form can be, for 17 year old boys.

Written and executive produced by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris for Bwark Productions, the show has already landed an impressive array of awards including; a BAFTA, British Comedy Awards, an RTS award for writing, a Broadcast Award, a TV Quick & TV Choice Award , an NME Award and a nomination for The National Television Awards. In addition, the show secured an average of 1.5 million viewers for Season 2 and currently has over 1.1 million friends on Facebook.

The series returns this September with more mishaps, embarrassing attempts to pull and the vital adult initiation – to lose their virginity and become men.

The start of term sees Carli organising a charity fashion show which Simon eagerly agrees to take part in, Will trying to escape being known as the kid who shat himself in the exam, and Jay is still up to his neck in imaginary sexual experiences. Over the six episodes, the quartet also tries their hand at camping, gigs and ‘puff’, obviously all with disastrous consequences.

And as the year goes on, one of the boys gets a proper, living breathing girlfriend – something the others find a little hard to take but very easy to ridicule.

Writer Iain Morris states, “We are hugely grateful for the support the show has had from the fans and are excited to have finished series three. Hopefully the fans will enjoy the boys’ adventures in their final year at school.”

The series is commissioned by Nerys Evans, co-executive produced by Caroline Leddy, produced by Christopher Young and directed by Ben Palmer.

Work continues on a feature length production of The Inbetweeners and a US version of the show is in the pipeline.

Independent production company Bwark Productions was founded in 2005 by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris. Bwark’s credits include Free Agents (Channel 4), Angelo’s (Five), The Persuasionists (BBC Two) and several Jimmy Carr live stand up DVDs.

The Inbetweeners series three and the Complete Series 1-3 box sets are available on 25th October 2010.

The Inbetweeners Cast List

Will – Simon Bird
Jay – James Buckley
Neil – Blake Harrison
Simon – Joe Thomas
Tara – Hannah Tointon
Carli – Emily Head
Mr Gilbert – Greg Davies
Charlotte – Emily Atack
Mark Donovan – Henry Lloyd-Hughes

THE INBETWEENERS – Characters

WILL (Simon Bird) Will McKenzie is on a bad run. His parents have divorced and, to compound matters, his (totally hot) mum has moved him out of an independent school and into a local comprehensive. Will’s last school did a good job preparing him for the outside world – he’s smart, confident, quick-witted and outspoken. Unfortunately for Will this isn’t the outside world, this is the sixth form at Rudge Park Comprehensive where all these attributes make the kids, and teachers, deeply suspicious of him. Through dogged determination (and a bit of stalking) Will has now made friends with Simon, Jay and Neil, who if anything are a little more tragic than him. Unfortunately he’s also made enemies of the sixth form nutter (Mark Donovan) and his psychotic head of year, Mr Gilbert.

SIMON (Joe Thomas) Simon is Will’s closest friend at Rudge Park. Despite being coerced into looking after Will when he first arrived at school, Simon has warmed to him. He sees Will as more on his level than his other mates. Someone he can talk to about more than just “clunge”, football and Playstation, even though he does spend most of his time droning on about his love for Carli D’Amato. It’s an unrequited love, obviously, but who knows, if Simon wasn’t such a loser around Carli maybe something could happen. However that’s about as big an “if” as you’re ever likely to find.

JAY (James Buckley) Everyone had a mate like Jay Cartwright. The sort of friend that in later life you look back on and think “‘why did I hang around with him?”. A potty mouthed, verbal bully, Jay is constantly bragging about his sexual conquests and daring feats, although there seems to be a disturbing lack of evidence for his hyperbolic claims. He has a natural antipathy towards Will, mainly because Will has no hesitation in pulling Jay’s lies to pieces.

NEIL (Blake Harrison) Neil Sullivan is the boy for whom the phrase “in a world of his own” was invented. Not exactly the brains of the outfit, Neil is always twenty seconds behind everything and everyone. But just when you think he’s really stupid he says something that almost makes sense. Much to Neil’s annoyance, his unconventional dad – a single, middle-aged man struggling to raise a family after his wife walked out on them – is the butt of the other’s crude jokes, who relentlessly cast aspersions on his sexuality just because he “wears tight shorts” and “plays badminton on a Tuesday”.

CARLI D’AMATO (Emily Head) Carli is the gorgeous girl next door who Simon has had a crush on for as long as anyone can remember. Carli, like all girls her age, is more sophisticated than our hapless four, preferring guys just that bit older, at university, and with their own (not tiny and yellow) cars.

CHARLOTTE (Emily Atack) Charlotte was the gorgeous and sophisticated girl in the year above, now she’s the gorgeous and sophisticated girl at university, but she’s back for a visit and once again the object of Will’s school boy crush.

TARA (Hannah Tointon) In the year below, Tara has always quietly had Simon in her sights. Now she’s in the 6^th form, she’s spreading her wings and got a bit more confidence to make her move. Unfortunately for her, the fit boy from the year above is a bit of a tit and his mates who follow him everywhere aren’t any better.

MR GILBERT (Greg Davies) Mr Gilbert is the psychotic head of sixth form at Rudge Park. He’s one of those teachers who’s just a bit fed up with what for him has been a fairly thankless career. To say he doesn’t suffer fools would be an understatement; he doesn’t suffer anyone, and he gives Will a particularly tough ride for no other reason than he can.

MARK DONOVAN (Henry Lloyd-Hughes)
Donovan is the resident school psycho. He bullies his way through the new and the weak kids and is the on-off boyfriend of the most popular girl at school, Charlotte Hinchcliffe. Charlotte is inconceivably attracted to Will, a bittersweet triumph that puts our hero immediately on a collision course with Donovan.

Cast biogs:

Simon Bird (Will) Simon was named Best Male Comedy Actor at the 2009 British Comedy Awards, having won Best Male Newcomer in 2008. He was also nominated for Best Male Comedy Actor at the 2009 BAFTA Awards and Best Comedy Performance at the 2008 Royal Television Society Awards. He has been a regular performer on the live comedy scene, both as a stand-up and as part of sketch group The House of Windsor (with Joe Thomas and Jonny Sweet). Most recently Simon has written and starred in a new series for BBC3 called The King is Dead, due for TX in September 2010.

Joe Thomas (Simon) As a writer, Joe has recently been named a 2010 Broadcast Magazine Hot Shot, alongside collaborators Jonny Sweet and Simon Bird. The trio are currently developing an original scripted comedy which they will star in, with Big Talk Productions ‘Spaced’ ‘Shaun of the Dead’ for Channel 4. Joe has also recently worked on Simon Bird’s upcoming comedy panel series ‘The Kings Dead’, which will air on BBC3 later this year. He is also set to start in another independent British film which shoots early 2011.Joe Thomas and Jonny Sweet have been writing and performing comedy together since they met at Cambridge University in 2003. They were nominated for the Writer’s Guild Best Comedy Newcomer Award for their first hour-long comedy show and went on to stage two more highly acclaimed shows at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival including one with Simon Bird called ‘House of Windsor’.

James Buckley (Jay) James was just 11 years old when he appeared in his first West End play ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ at the Aldwych theatre. Soon after this he was also cast in ‘Les Miserables’ at the Palace Theatre. His television credits include 2001’s ‘Orrible’ with Johnny Vaughan, ‘Skins’, BBC sitcom’ Fresh’, Channel 4 Comedy Lab, ‘Filth’ and BBC, ‘Only Fool and Horses’ Prequel, ‘Rock and Chips’ . James attended the Performing Arts College in Essex and enjoys writing music, playing guitar with his band and Dj’ing.

Blake Harrison (Neil) Blake trained at East 15 Acting School and went straight from there into the first series of The Inbetweeners. Other recent work includes the co-lead in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret in which he co-stars with David Cross and Sharon Horgan. It is a US/UK co-production and will air in the States this autumn and here on Channel Four shortly after. Blake has also had guest roles in Him and Her (BBC3) and White Van Man (BBC). He has also played a support lead in the feature Reuniting the Rubins.

Emily Head (Carli) As well as enjoying three seasons of’ The Inbetweeners’ Emily has had other notable television roles including the series regular ‘Grace in The Invisibles’ and significant guest leads in ‘MI high’, ‘Doc Martin’, ‘Doctors’ and ‘Trial and Retribution’. Last year she made her feature film debut shooting alongside Noel Fielding on the Independent film ‘I Spit on Your Rave’ and has just completed filming with the award winning French director Cedric Klapisch on the film ‘My Piece of Pie’.

Emily Atack (Charlotte) Emily is the daughter of Actress/Singer Kate Robbins, neice to Amy & Ted Robbins, cousin to Sir Paul McCartney so it is fair to say she is steeped in entertainment tradition.    Her first break in TV came when she appeared in a an episode of ‘Blue Murder’ for ITV in which she had a leading guest role, opposite Caroline Quentin.She is best known, however, for her work as Charlotte Hinchcliffe in the hugely successful comedy series, ‘The Inbetweeners’, which is on the brink of screening it’s third series.  She recently took part in ‘Dancing On Ice’ for ITV, and the 2010 national tour that followed. Her other work includes appearances in: ‘Heartbeat’, ‘Rock And Chips’ and a Victoria Wood Christmas Special.

Hannah Tointon (Tara) Hannah Tointon is best known for playing Katy Fox in the long running Channel 4 series ‘Hollyoaks’. In 2006, Hannah appeared in the television series ‘Murder City’, where she played Bethany Williams in the episode ‘Just Seventeen’. She also appeared in ‘Dream Team’ as Savannah Caskey and then went on to appear in ‘New Tricks’. She also starred in the movie ‘The Children’ – a horror which co-starred Jeremy Sheffield. It was released in November 2008. Her other movie credits include ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ and ‘The Glass House’.

LONDON, Thursday 26th August 2010; Bwark Productions have announced that production is underway for The Inbetweeners movie and filming will commence in locations in Greece and the UK next week.

The cast will include stars of the TV show – Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Emily Head.

The hit comedy, which has been described as the British American Pie, delves deep into the psyche of the British teenage boy to discover equal amounts of lust, sick and cheap lager. None of our heroes are exceptional, all are distinctly average. And trying to convince the world they are sophisticated, sexy human beings usually ends in wretched disaster.

The film’s plot revolves around the boys first holiday away together and crucially, without their parents. The four of them decide to go to Malia, a party town for mainly young British tourists on the Greek island of Crete. And if they felt slightly outside of mainstream teenage society in their suburban hometown then that feeling is magnified a thousand times in one of Europe’s hedonistic hotspots.

The film will be directed by Ben Palmer and written and exec produced by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris. Chris Young is the producer for Young Bwark Films.

Notes To Editors

Written and executive produced by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris for Bwark Productions, the television show has already landed an impressive array of awards including; a BAFTA, British Comedy Awards, an RTS award for writing, a Broadcast Award, a TV Quick & TV Choice Award , an NME Award and a nomination for The National Television Awards.

In addition, the show secured an average of 1.5 million viewers for Season 2 and currently has over 1.1 million friends on Facebook.

The multi award-winning show returns to E4 and Channel 4 this September in its third, hotly anticipated series.

Press Contact Taylor Herring PR 0208 206 5151

London, 23rd August 2010: TV channel Dave, the home of witty banter, has announced the winner of the third annual Dave Award for the Funniest Joke of the Fringe.

In its quest to find the outstanding one-liners, and the most disastrous put-downs the judges sat through an average of 60 different comedy performances and sifted through more than 3,600 minutes of material. This meant they each had a potential pool of around 7,200 different jokes to choose from.

With nearly 40% of the overall votes, comedian Tim Vine, takes the top spot and walks away with the hand-crafted Dave trophy and a cash prize for his witty one-liner: ‘I’ve just been on a once in a lifetime holiday.  I’ll tell you what.  Never again’.

The winning joke, taken from Vine’s current sell-out show, ‘The Joke-Amotive’ at the Pleasance Courtyard, marks a triumphant return to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe for the stand-up and TV star. Vine has proved to be a firm favourite with both the panel of judges and the public with his witty one-liners and original show.

Steve North, Channel head of Dave says: “This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe features some 34,265 performances of 2,098 shows in 265 venues with comedy making up 35% of the programme. With the Dave Joke of the Fringe we’ve boiled it down to the best 24 jokes on offer and let the public crown Tim Vine as the winner.”

Of his win, Vine said: “I am very happy to win this award and I’m going to celebrate by going to Sooty’s barbecue and having a sweepsteak”.

The Top 10 funniest jokes from the Fringe Festival

Tim Vine  – “I’ve just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again.”

David Gibson as Ray Green – “I’m currently dating a couple of anorexics. Two birds, one stone.”

Emo Philips – “I picked up a hitch hiker. You gotta when you hit them.”

Jack Whitehall – “I bought one of those anti-bullying wristbands when they first came out. I say “bought” – I actually stole it off a short, fat ginger kid.”

Gary Delaney – “As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn’t afford a dog.”

John Bishop – “Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.”

Bo Burnham – “What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.”

Gary Delaney – “Dave drowned. So at the funeral we got him a wreath in the shape of a lifebelt. Well, it’s what he would have wanted.”

Robert White – “For Vanessa Feltz, life is like a box of chocolates: empty.”

Gareth Richards – “Wooden spoons are great. You can either use them to prepare food, or if you can’t be bothered with that, just write a number on one and walk into a pub…”

Some of the biggest groaners include:

Sara Pascoe – “Why did the chicken commit suicide? To get to the other side.”

Sean Hughes – “You know city-centre beat officers… Well are they police who rap?”

Gyles Brandreth – “I’ve got nothing against lesbians. I mean, that’s the point isn’t it?”

Doc Brown – “I was born into the music industry. My dad worked in Our Price.”

John Luke Roberts – “I made a Battenberg where the two colours ran alongside each other. I called it apartheid sponge.”

Sarah Millican – “I bought a cross-trainer to keep fit. I suppose that it’s not enough to just buy it.”

Bec Hill – “Some of my best friends are vegan. They were going to come today but they didn’t have the energy to climb up the stairs.”

Dan Antopolski – “How many Spaniards does it take to change a lightbulb? Juan.”

Andi Osho  – “Floella Benjamin is in the House of Lords. How did she get in, through the round window?”

Gareth Richards – “My mother is always taking photographs of me; she said if you disappear tomorrow I want you to look good on the news.”

Emo Phillips  – “I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it’s hard to find 32 of them.”

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is widely acknowledged to be the biggest arts festival in the world and takes place every August for three weeks in Scotland’s capital city. Starting in 1947, it was seen as a post-war initiative to re-unite Europe through culture, and was so successful that it inspired more performers than there was room for.

Satirical and edgy, Dave is an irreverent channel that showcases the best in contemporary entertainment and is the home of witty banter.  Beside the very best quizcoms and cult comedies – including the UK’s highest rating commission, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth (watched by 2.66m) – Dave also broadcasts UKTV’s sports offering with World Rally Championships and Red Bull X-Fighters. Dave is available on Freeview (channel 19), Sky (111) and Virgin (128).

The rather brilliant spoof news website The Poke, launched this week.

Updated daily, it delivers a unique twist on everything from pop to politics. Please follow them on Twitter or Facebook too.

Nine New Clubs To Launch

LONDON, Wednesday 2nd June 2010: Comedy giant Jongleurs today announced that it is investing a further £2m into its comedy and entertainment offering in 2010, with plans to launch nine new clubs nationwide later this year.

Jongleurs investment arrives at a time the UK is enjoying a comedy boom with arena tours selling out and stand up comedy DVD sales toppling Hollywood blockbusters at Christmas.

The new launch, a franchise agreement with Momo Leisure Ltd, will see new clubs open in Cambridge, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle to add to an already successful Nottingham launch in April.

The Nottingham site has re-established comedy back in the heart of the City to great customer reaction. Shows are already extremely busy with customers saying how delighted they are that the Jongleurs brand is back. The new look Jongleurs is quickly developing a reputation for great service, good food and of course a first class comedy experience.

Momo Leisure was founded in 2009 by David Elphick, Head of Training at Poppleston Allen and Jez King, a former Regent Inns Executive and Divisional MD at Laurel. The pair has put together a strong management team who are very experienced in the comedy market.

Further expansion plans are already underway with Novus Leisure Ltd, which opened the flagship joint venture at Sway in Covent Garden on 15th May 2010, with plans to open new clubs in Portsmouth, Croydon, Glasgow and Leeds.

Jongluers@Sway has been selling out a new premium comedy offering, Jongleurs Posh, a £40 ticket that includes a three course dinner, four stand up acts and table service, suggesting that comedy is one of the most recession-proof of all industries.

John Davy, Jongleurs co-owner, said “Jongleurs is synonymous with great comedy and a fantastic all round night out and this fresh investment will help bring our unique offering to even more customers and new audiences. The appetite for a complete comedy and entertainment experience is stronger than ever and we are experiencing unprecedented demand from corporate and larger group bookings in particular who are looking for an entertainment one-stop-shop.”

Maria Kempinska, Jongleurs founder and co-owner, said “For 27 years Jongleurs has been a driving force in British stand up comedy, innovating the comedy experience in terms of acts, environment and approach. It seems people want to laugh and be entertained in times of recession and Jongleurs is focussed on meeting that need.”

By the end of 2010 there will be eleven Jongleurs clubs around the UK in total, with plans to continue to roll out in 2011.

Press Contact: Taylor Herring PR 0208 206 5151

London 27th May 2010: An extraordinarily rare original script of the classic movie, Life of Brian, signed by John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin will be going up for auction at the Great British Comedy Event on Tuesday 8th June.

In addition to the exclusive Monty Python script, attendees will have the opportunity to bid for a number of other unique lots, including the chance to sit in the famous Have I Got News for You hosts chair and present a round of HIGNFY with Ian Hislop and Paul Merton, plus a vasectomy for one romantic yet responsible gentleman!

The Great British Comedy Event will be celebrating three of Britain’s greatest comedy franchises in the presence of their stars; Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton of Have I Got News For You, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin of Monty Python. In addition, the evening will feature performances from the celebrated artists.

The star studded Great British Movie Event, which took place in 2008, raised over £400,000 for the National Film and Television School and attracted a host of famous faces such as Daniel Craig, Hugh Grant, Robbie Coltrane, Honor Blackman, Anne Robinson, Rowan Atkinson and Alan Rickman, to name but a few.

Daniel Craig and Hugh Grant used their charms on Barbara Broccoli as she won a kiss from the stars for the bargain price of £19,000. Craig and Grant also fought for a selection of Harry Potter memorabilia, which Daniel Craig eventually won for £18,000 at the 2008 event.

Hosted by Alexander Armstrong, this years Great British Comedy Event in support of the National Film and Television School will also feature a main auction conducted by Lord Dalmeny of Sotheby’s. All funds raised at the auction will support the National Film and Television School’s capital development plans, the curriculum and scholarships for students at the school.

Tim Bevan of Working Title, Barbara Broccoli, Michael Hamlyn, producer of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Simon Oakes of Hammer Films and Tim Hincks of Endemol are just a few of the other guests set to attend this year’s event. Only people who attend the Great British Comedy Event will be able to bid for the auction.

The Great British Comedy Event will take place on Tuesday 8th June from 7pm at Old Billingsgate. To book a table please email gala@nfts.co.uk

For more information please contact Laura McTurk at Taylor Herring on 0208 206 5151

LONDON, Wednesday 7th April: Channel 4 announces today that filming has commenced for Series 3 of the award winning hit E4 comedy, The Inbetweeners. Get ready to expand your vocabulary once more as the people who brought you ‘clunge’ and ‘briefcase wanker’ are back.

Still marooned in suburbia, The Inbetweeners follows four friends as they navigate the minefield of year thirteen with their hormones running riot.

The original cast of Simon Bird (Will), James Buckley (Jay), Blake Harrison (Neil) and Joe Thomas (Simon) all return in a brand new 6 x 30 minute series which will be broadcast later this year. The series also sees the return of Greg Davies (Mr. Gilbert), Emily Head (Carli) and Emily Atack (Charlotte).

Written and executive produced by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris for Bwark Productions, the show has already landed an impressive array of awards including; British Comedy Awards, an RTS award for writing, a Broadcast Award, a TV Quick & TV Choice Award, an NME Award and nominations for both BAFTA and The National Television Awards.

The series is commissioned by Head of Comedy at C4, Shane Allen, co-executive produced by Caroline Leddy, produced by Christopher Young and directed by Ben Palmer.

On the new series, Shane Allen says: “The Inbetweeners series have gone from strength to strength and the scripts for series 3 are masterpieces of teenage excruciation. New lows have been plumbed in brilliantly inventive ways”.

Work continues on a feature length production of The Inbetweeners and a US version of the show is in the pipeline.

Independent production company Bwark Productions was founded in 2005 by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris. Bwark’s credits include Free Agents (Channel 4), Angelo’s (Five), The Persuasionists (BBC Two) and several Jimmy Carr live stand up DVDs.

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Tonight, 10pm on BBC TWO: From the makers of the award-winning series, The Inbetweeners, and debut screenwriter, Jonathan Thake, comes new British comedy, The Persuasionists. The sitcom focuses on the lives of five overpaid and underworked employees at a fictional advertising agency.

LONDON, Wednesday 6th January 2010; From the makers of the award-winning series, The Inbetweeners, and debut screenwriter, Jonathan Thake, comes new British sitcom, The Persuasionists.

Renowned for ‘the slag of all snacks’ campaign for Pot Noodle, Jonathan Thake draws on his experience in the fast paced world of advertising for this six part series.

The sitcom focuses on the lives of five overpaid and underworked employees at fictional advertising agency HHH&H.

The series stars Adam Buxton, (6Music’s – Adam & Joe, Hot Fuzz, Randall & Hopkirk Deceased), Iain Lee (11 O’clock Show, Absolute Radio), Simon Farnaby (Bunny and the Bull, Jam & Jerusalem), Daisy Haggard (Psychoville, Ashes to Ashes) and brilliant stand-up comedian Jarred Christmas.

The uncontrollable urge-bag Keaton (Simon Farnaby) peruses the workplace for new conquests – everyone he hasn’t already had. Billy (Iain Lee), the intelligent underachiever, indulges in his role as the office menace. Spoilt neurotic Emma (Daisy Haggard) would like to break the glass ceiling, but only if it doesn’t damage her lovely hair. Boss Clive (Jarred Christmas), the most Australian man on the planet, exults in his position as the resplendently ridiculous manager. The hopeless, witless and feckless Greg (Adam Buxton) is the eager Account Director desperately aspiring to be as ambitious and amoral as his colleagues.

Over the course of the series viewers will witness the five advertising degenerates battle their way through a variety of scenarios from having to sell a brown smelly ‘cockney cheese’ for disillusioned, aggressive and frightening cockney client, Jim (Lee Ross – The Catherine Tate Show, Eastenders, Secrets & Lies and Press Gang). Issues of beauty are tackled in episode two, as Emma becomes the ‘Head of Handsomeness’ and creates the ‘corridor of beauty’, placing the uglier colleagues in the boiler room. Later in the series Keaton, the Head of Global, becomes impotent as he learns that women are “somehow human too”. Keaton and Billy engage on a war of being impractical and battle it out to prove they are not mature and sensible. Emma embraces the new ‘Diet Stuff’ drink a little too enthusiastically and begins protesting against obesity. Billy experiences the frustration of writer’s block and Keaton sets out to steal his colleagues’ happiness.

Script edited by Andrew Collins (Not Going Out), The Persuasionists follows the underworked and overpaid agency staff who spend all day trying to persuade you to buy things you don’t want with money you don’t have.

Cheryl Taylor, BBC Controller of Comedy Commissioning, said: “As a big fan of inventive comedy characters I’m thrilled to see the bizarre world and twisted logic of the The Persuasionists coming to BBC TWO.”

The series is produced by Bwark, the makers of The Inbetweeners, Angelo’s and Free Agents. The Executive Producers are Simon Wilson for the BBC and Iain Morris and Damon Beesley for Bwark. Directed by Tristram Shapeero (Reggie Perrin, Peep Show) and produced by Jon Rolph (Taking The Flak).

The Persuasionists, 10pm, Wednesday 13th January, BBC TWO

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