He launched the BBC Comedy Association to promote more inclusiveness through writing bursaries and sponsoring off screen production entry roles across numerous shows as well as bring the New Comedy Awards back to television.Īt C4 he was responsible for The Inbetweeners Movie (£45m at the UK box office), Friday Night Dinner, Black Mirror, Toast, Peep Show, The IT Crowd, Cardinal Burns, Fonejacker, Star Stories, PhoneShop and Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set.Įarly career in production included The 11 0’Clock Show, Shooting Stars, Ali G in Da USAiiii and The Brass Eye Special.
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Key BBC commissioning credits: Peter Kay’s Car Share, Ghosts, Gavin & Stacey 2019 Christmas, Worzel Gummidge, Mum, Fleabag, Inside Number 9, Motherland, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe, Man Like Mobeen, This Country, Mandy, Detectorists, The Young Offenders, W1A, The Other One and People Just Do Nothing both the series and movie. PRU’s four teenage leads will be found via an open casting call, which launches online today.Shane is the first person to have held the Head of Comedy role at both Channel 4 and the BBC. with all episodes available from 6am as a boxset release on BBC iPlayer. The Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), known informally by pupils as the sin bin, is a special unit at Waterloo Road to help pupils with their poor academic. The documentary investigated the claims of Professor Kevin Dowd, professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Durham, that the equity release sector has been seriously under-valuing embedded guarantees, and that the regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority. Previous BBC Three pilots or Comedy Slices include People Just Do Nothing and Liam Williams’ Ladhood.įounded in 2010, Fully Focused channels its profits into training programmes, and runs a YouTube channel, Million Youth Media, showcasing short films made by the young people it works with. PRU is a comedy about a group of teens struggling to navigate adolescence in a pupil referral unit, a school for excluded kids. Those who missed the programme can listen to it on the BBC iPlayer here. Fully Focused bring their ethos and emphasis on authenticity and representation of young voices both on and off camera.” A pilot episode of the comedy launches via Threes iPlayer home next Tuesday, 2nd March.
The online brand has ordered a four-part series of sitcom PRU (pictured), set in a pupil referral unit. Shane Allen, the BBC’s head of comedy commissioning, described the script as crackling with “terrific dialogue from sharply drawn characters in a world we haven’t seen before in sitcoms – all imbued with truth, heart and hilarity. BBC Three has announced a number of new comedy commissions. But when class clown Halil threatens the class paintballing trip, Sienna takes matters into her own. However, Sienna takes a dislike to him and consequently leads a rebellion on the roof, much to. PRU is a comedy about a group of teens struggling to navigate adolescence in a pupil referral unit, a school for excluded kids. The Miracle Berry, presented by Tom Mangold, is on Radio 4 at 2100 BST on 28 April. “This includes young people who’ve attended PRUs, have experience of the youth justice system and are known to borough youth offending teams.” As well as providing support and mentoring, Fully Focused allows young people to use their own experiences to inform their work with the organisation. It’s Sienna’s first day at the PRU and a chance for a fresh start. The kids are introduced to the ‘power of manifestation’ by holier-than-thou life coach, Noah. In the 1960s, Robert Harvey, a biomedical postgraduate student, encountered the miracle berry, a fruit from west Africa which turns sour tastes to sweet. The young people Fully Focused works with have “‘lived experience’ of the issues we portray in our drama, comedy and documentaries”, Henry said. The programme, she said, is developed with people aged 18-25 and will provide paid training for young people during production. Merit are on BBC Midlands news today discussing the success of our. Director Teddy Nygh and writers Alex Tenenbaum and Nathaniel Stevens have experience working with young people, including those in referral units, while Fully Focused helps young people from underrepresented backgrounds enter the creative industries.Įxecutive producer Leah Henry of Fully Focused says the show will “look past the stereotypes of kids who can’t behave and the wit, charm, frenetic energy and beautiful chaos of young people from all walks of life”.