''The Inbetweeners'' is an American television

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developed by

Brad Copeland Brad Copeland is an American television writer, producer and film director, best known for his work on the Fox TV series ''Arrested Development''. Television career He has written for the television programs ''Arrested Development'', ''My Name ...

for

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. The show stars

Joey Pollari Joey Pollari (born April 9, 1994) is an American actor, musician, and director who became well known for his role as Eric Tanner on American Broadcasting Company, ABC's second season of ''American Crime (TV series), American Crime'', and in 2018, ...

, Bubba Lewis, Mark L. Young,

Zack Pearlman Zack Pearlman is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Zack in '' The Virginity Hit''. He has co-starred in short-lived television comedies such as MTV's ''The Inbetweeners'' and on the Fox sitcom '' Mulaney''. Early life Pearlma ...

, Alex Frnka and

Brett Gelman Brett Gelman (born October 6, 1976) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Murray Bauman in Netflix's horror-supernatural series ''Stranger Things'' and as Martin in the BBC comedy '' Fleabag''. Gelman began his care ...

. The show is a remake of the original British series of the same name written and created by Damon Beesley and

Iain Morris Iain Kevan Morris (born 6 August 1973) is an English writer. He is best known for creating ''The Inbetweeners'' with his writing partner Damon Beesley and co-hosting a show on London radio station XFM with stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr. He feat ...

, who served as

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s alongside Copeland, Aaron Kaplan and Lauren Corra. It ran on MTV from August 20 to November 5, 2012. On November 28, 2012, the series was canceled after one season, due to poor ratings and reviews.

Main cast

as Will McKenzie * Bubba Lewis as Simon Cooper * Alex Frnka as Carli D'Amato *

as Jay Cartwright * Mark L. Young as Neil Sutherland

Production

After an unsuccessful attempt by

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to create an American version of ''The Inbetweeners'' in 2008, MTV announced in late-September 2010 that it had hired noted comedy writer Brad Copeland (known for writing on American comedies such as ''

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'' and ''

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'') to write the script for an American ''Inbetweeners'' series.

Taika Waititi Taika David Cohen (born 16 August 1975), known professionally as Taika Waititi ( ), is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian. Known for quirky comedy films and expanding his career as a voice actor and producer on numerous projects, he ...

was chosen to direct the pilot. On 31 March 2011, MTV officially announced that it had picked up ''The Inbetweeners'' for an additional eleven episodes, creating a twelve-episode first season. Copeland served as executive producer and

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. In November 2012,

had decided not to go ahead with a planned second season of the American remake.

said to

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, "While we won't be moving forward with another season of ''The Inbetweeners'', we enjoyed working with the show's creators and such a talented, funny cast."

Episodes

Critical reception

The series was panned by critics. However, on Metacritic the series has a score of 62 out of 100 based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews". The American version is extremely unpopular with viewers from the UK, with many newspapers reporting that it had "flopped". It was listed by ''Metro'' as one of the "Top 10 British comedies whose US remakes have flopped".

Cancelled film adaptation

On July 3, 2012, it was announced that a U.S. adaptation of ''

The Inbetweeners Movie ''The Inbetweeners Movie'' (known simply as ''The Inbetweeners'' in North America) is a 2011 British Coming-of-age film, coming-of-age teen film, teen adventure film, adventure comedy film based on the E4 (channel), E4 sitcom ''The Inbetweeners' ...

'' was in the works. Morris and Beesley were approached by

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to lead the project. However, following the cancellation of the series, the film was never produced. On August 22, 2013,

Jim Field Smith Jim Field Smith (born 20 February 1979) is an English film and television director, writer and producer. Early career Smith was a member of the British sketch comedy group Dutch Elm Conservatoire, who were nominated for the prestigious Perrier ...

was initially revealed to be directing the American adaptation of the British film, then titled ''Virgins America'', but as of 2025, no further developments have taken place. Whether Morris and Beesley had any involvement with the project is unknown.

References

External links

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