NEW COMEDY
The First Team
Thursday, BBC2 HD, 9.30pm
Iain Morris and Damon Beesley haven’t written a TV series together since their hit E4 show The Inbetweeners ended a decade ago, but now the pair are finally teaming up again to bring us a wacky new football comedy.
Their six-part sitcom, The First Team, is set in a high-profile professional football club where most of the players have more money than sense. It’s an idea that first came to Morris when he got chatting to a Premier League player on a transatlantic flight a few years ago.
‘We wanted the next TV show we wrote together to be the right one,’ he explains. ‘I’m a huge football fan and talking to this player about his day-to-day existence was fascinating. It revealed all sorts of things I never knew and had never even considered about life in the game.’
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