Jack Whitehall

Satire for youngsters, nostalgia for oldsters: Channel 4's unromantic comedy has something for everyone. The first series also had the odd wobble but was saved by the fact that our student heroes (mismatched tenants in a Manchester house-share) were fleshed out and believable enough that we cared what became of them, even when they weren't spouting jaggedly funny dialogue.

Series two opens with posh berk JP (Jack Whitehall, note perfect) introducing a friend to the North ("The northerner is trusting and loyal like a gun-dog"), before hearing news that makes him seize up hilariously. Scheming nerd Howard has a job at an abbatoir, and Kingsley has grown a tiny beard.

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Fresh Meat: Series 2 Episode 1 review

Joe Thomas & Jack Whitehall shine in the return of this hilarious Channel 4 drama.

The award-winning comedy about a university flatshare returns for a second run. The six housemates are back in their squalid Manchester digs, with Jack Whitehall's posh boy JP in the limelight tonight in a plotline about his public school days. Adeptly combining sharp humour with a well crafted cast of characters and a surprising poignancy, this is one of the best comedies in recent memory.

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Greg McHugh interview

As anticipation for the second series of Fresh Meat reaches dangerous levels, Digital Spy caught up with Greg McHugh to ask what's coming up in the new episodes, whether he's a fan of The Inbetweeners and how the success of Jack Whitehall's Bad Education has gone down with the team...

Jack Whitehall's Bad Education ended as it began, a baffling mix of great lines ('Pol Pot and Paul Potts, I always get those two mixed up') and misfiring scenes even Waterloo Road would have thought twice about. Still, it's worth a second term, if only to find out who's living in Mathew Horne's hair.

One of the chief joys of Jack Whitehall's sitcom is the superb supporting cast. Mathew Horne plays the tragically uncool head teacher, who longs to be everyone's best mate, to the chagrin of his cringeing staff. Equally hilarious is Green Wing's Michelle Gomez as the menacing, maroon-lipped deputy head who dreams of running the school like a concentration camp. Finally, there's Sarah Solemani as the hippy art teacher who loses her rag after our hapless hero, Mr Wickers, hijacks the school elections.

Everyone is on the campaign trail in this final episode of a series that never quite lived up to its potential. Jack Whitehall's slacker teacher wants one of his miscreants to thwart a junior politician-in-the-making for the job of school president, while Fraser (Mat Horne) campaigns to get his job back after a misdemeanour in the exam hall sees him suspended - much to the undisguised, flared-nostrilled glee of Michelle Gomez's evil Miss Pickwell.