Channel 4’s award winning comedy-drama about the hilarious and painful truths of being a student is being released on DVD for the first time on October 8th. We have three copies of the DVD to give away to our readers. Winner of a British Comedy Award for Best New Comedy and two Rts Television Awards for Best Scripted Comedy and Best Writer – Comedy. Fresh Meat is created by Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, Fresh Meat follows a group of six students embarking upon the most exciting period of their lives so far: university! Fresh Meat focuses on an assorted bunch of fresher’s when their new university accommodation office places them together in a shared house. There’s Jp (Jack Whitehall), a public school boy with good teeth and an inflated sense of entitlement; Kingsley (Joe Thomas, The Inbetweeners), charming and crushingly insecure; Josie (Kimberley Nixon,...
- 10/4/2012
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
In comedy circles it’s generally agreed that Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong are among the best writers currently working in the field, and with credits like Peep Show and last year’s film Four Lions already under their belts, any new show by the duo is going to be eagerly anticipated. The trouble is, when you keep raising the bar eventually you’re going to clatter into it, and sadly that’s what’s happened to them with their latest Channel 4 venture Fresh Meat (which premiered last night on Channel 4). Don’t get me wrong, Fresh Meat isn’t terrible, it’s just it’s not that good either.
The basic plot of the show follows six mismatched characters who’ve missed out on getting into their university halls of residence and find themselves thrown together under one roof. As a result of which we’re presented...
The basic plot of the show follows six mismatched characters who’ve missed out on getting into their university halls of residence and find themselves thrown together under one roof. As a result of which we’re presented...
- 9/22/2011
- by Jez Gee
- Obsessed with Film
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