Iain Morris

Inbetweeners Movie performs poorly at U.S. box office

It's the cult TV hit that became a cinematic sensation at the UK box-office, earning a staggering £45 million. But in the US over the weekend, The Inbetweeners Movie took less than $36,000 at only 10 screens, and the film's co-creator Iain Morris has blamed it on the language barrier.

Dialogue & teenage scrapes key to Inbetweeners success

Written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, The Inbetweeners is a hit comedy series that charted the lives of four teenage boys at Rudge Park Comprehensive making the difficult transition to adulthood.

Inbetweeners writer quashes fourth series rumours

The Inbetweeners writer Iain Morris has poured scorn on reports that his television creation is set for a fourth series.

Much like Peep Show, it's understandable that some people assume that the stars of gross-out-but-sometimes-oddly-sweet teen sitcom The Inbetweeners - Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison - actually wrote the show, as they seem to fit their characters so well. Not so, however - that honour belongs to (Damon Beesley and Iain Morris) but Bird and Thomas are in fact pretty experienced comedy writers, having performed (and impressed) at the Edinburgh Fringe with their show The Meeting, created with award-winning stand-up comic Jonny Sweet.

For Chickens, these three have got back together and produced a properly entertaining half hour pilot in which they play the only three men left in a pretty Heart-of-England village during the First World War. They each have their reasons for staying behind: Cecil (Bird) isn't allowed in the army on account of his flat feet, teacher George (Thomas) is a conscientious objector and Bert (Sweet)... well he just finds it difficult to remember there's a war on, what with all the girls (and women, and old ladies) of the village distracting him the whole time.

There was an element of farce about this - Cecil ends up accidentally peeing on a tree planted in remembrance of a dead soldier - but as with so many sitcoms, Chickens actually works best when it's just the three leads chatting and bickering. Jonny Sweet, I think, pretty much steals the show. As a self-centred lothario, he's simultaneously incredibly creepy and massively watchable - here, as with his stand-up, it's his delivery that makes him so much fun. All the best comics can make an apparently simple word sound hilarious and Sweet is no different. Just take a listen to how he says the word 'crow'.

Video: The Inbetweeners Movie: Writers interview

Exclusive interview with The Inbetweeners Movie writers Iain Morris and Damon Beesley.

An interview with Iain Morris

Iain Morris is an English writer and comedian, probably best known for co-writing and creating the incredibly successful series "The Inbetweeners...

Century acquires Inbetweeners Yearbook

Century has acquired world rights to The Inbetweeners Yearbook, by the comedy series' creators and writers, Damon Beesley and Iain Morris.

Chat with Inbetweeners writer Iain Morris

An exclusive interview following the end of The Inbetweeners. "We'd actually wanted to write a teen comedy film before we started making The Inbetweeners."

Interview with co-writer Iain Morris

"Both Damon and I try to draw the characters from real life, I identify with Will."