Key Facts: 

• Written in 2006 by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris 

• Set in the fictional school Rudge ark Comprehensive

• Cast: Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison and James Buckley 

• Broadcast by Channel 4

 

Inspiration behind the sitcom:

• The two writers were writing about how they acted as 18 year old boys

• “You may say Damon and I have never really grown up, and we still love that world we portrayed in ‘The Inbetweeners’. When I was -18 or so- I made a decision that I’d pretty much say yes to any kind of social event or offer, and most of the time it’s been disastrous, but it’s always been a defining factor in my life, and I’m now grateful for it as it’s led to enough anecdotes to full the three ‘Inbetweeners’ series.”

• “We wanted the show to be almost a survival guide, a kind of self- help manual for teenage boys, so that they could look at it and say, “My life sucks but it’s not actually as bad as it is for Will and Simon and Jay and Neil.” And we also wanted it to be helpful for teenage girls. We liked the idea that girls suffering abuse from boys on the bus, or wherever, could devastate them by calling them ‘inbetweeners’.”