Chewing Gum
- TV sitcom
- E4
- 2015 - 2017
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Comedy starring singer, poet and award-winning playwright Michaela Coel as an innocent 22 year-old who is learning to grow up. Also features Robert Lonsdale, Danielle Isaie, Susan Wokoma, Shola Adewusi, Maggie Steed and more.
- Series 1, Episode 1 repeated Saturday 4th January at 11pm on U&W
Streaming rank this week: 1,375
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Esquire, 22nd August 2020Michaela Coel: Chewing Gum incident like 'slave ship'
Coel recalled one particular moment on the first day on set in which five of the show's black cast members were forced to share a trailer while a white actor had one to herself, comparing the scene to "a f***in' slave ship".
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Chewing Gum, In The Long Run, Man Like Mobeen, Roast Battle, The Young Offenders and This Country are amongst the nominees for the Broadcast Digital Awards 2018.
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