Two new sitcoms starring three-quarters of The Inbetweeners start next week. Here’s everything you need to know about Chickens and Big Bad World .
Everyone is very excited that there's going to be another Inbetweeners movie.
But that isn't all that the boys are up to.
Chickens is the new project from writers and actors Simon Bird and Joe Thompson, along with friend Jonny Sweet. And it's a sitcom set in the First World War.
This might seem a risky setting for comedy. But as they explained when launching the series, Chickens is not really about the war at all.
"One reason is that the three of us are men, sort of," said Bird. "And we wanted the other main parts in the show to be female. It seemed like a funny idea, three men in a world of women."
The wartime setting then, came about from trying to find a situation where these three characters were the only men in their community. It's 1914 and in the village of Rittle On Sea, most of the menfolk have gone off to fight... apart from these three.
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Cecil (Bird) actually tried to sign up, but was rejected on account of his flat feet, which was a real thing at the time because it meant you couldn't march properly.
George (Thompson), a local schoolteacher, has opted out for pacifist reasons, while hedonist Bert believes that the lack of other men in the village will do wonders for his sex life.
"We wanted them to be anti-heroes, because I think we associate with the losers of society," said Sweet. "We were thinking of ways of doing three people who were somehow failing, in a dramatic and spectacular way. Just in the process of walking around and having a sandwich, being failures and a disgrace."
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