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Jerk. Image shows from L to R: Tim (Tim Renkow), Tim's Mom (Lorraine Bracco)
Jerk

Jerk

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Three
  • 2016 - 2023
  • 15 episodes (3 series)

Comedy starring Tim Renkow as a disabled man who is quite the jerk. Also features Sharon Rooney, Rob Madin, Lorraine Bracco, Saida Ahmed and Mysie

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Jerk. Tim (Tim Renkow)

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
2016 - 2023
Channel
BBC Three
Episodes
15 (1 pilot + 3 series)
Creators
Tim Renkow and Stu Richards
Stars
Tim Renkow, Sharon Rooney, Rob Madin, Lorraine Bracco, Saida Ahmed and Mysie
Writers
Tim Renkow, Stu Richards and Shaun Pye
Director
Tom McKay
Producers
Rebecca Murrell, Khaya Castagnoli, Mat Steiner, Ash Atalla, Alex Smith, Tim Renkow, Samantha McCole, Deborah Morgan and more
Companies

Tim has cerebral palsy, which means that people judge him, and his crumpled tissue of a body. But usually they judge him wrongly. Because what they don't realise is that inside that severely disabled, fragile body is a bit of an asshole.

Tim knows he makes people uncomfortable - he does it on purpose. He knows his cerebral palsy means he can get away with saying what others can't. But that's his problem: time spent taking aim at life's easier targets means Tim takes his eye off its bigger prizes: the job, the girl and the visa.

Like faking it as a refugee, making a disabled nemesis and offending his new colleagues at a greeting cards company, Tim becomes the master of his own downfall and it's left to his friends Idris, and Ruth, his indifferent care worker, to get him out of all the disastrous situations he gets himself into.

Catch-up

Additional details

Part of

Landmark Sitcom Season

BBC Comedy Feeds 2016

Also known as
  • Comedy Feeds: A Brief History Of Tim (Pilot)
Production
Location
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

Website links

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Thursday 1st September 2016 at 10am on BBC Three
Most recent repeats

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