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.
Streaming rank this week: 2,603
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Comedy shows in the running for Broadcast Digital Awards 2017
Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle, Chewing Gum, Fleabag, This Country, Celebrity Juice, Murder In Successville, Taskmaster and Unspun With Matt Forde are amongst the nominees in the Broadcast Digital Awards 2017.
British Comedy Guide, 18th May 2017Three UK comedies now being shown in USA
We recommend you check them out, in the following order... Fleabag (Amazon Prime), Catastrophoe (Amazon Prime) and Chewing Gum (Netflix).
Sam Eichner, Urban Daddy, 25th April 2017Chewing Gum: this is the future of comedy
From its sex clubs to its seedy zoophilia rings, Chewing Gum is always close to the knuckle - and it's taking British comedy to gruesome, gleeful new heights.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 9th February 2017Will there be a third series of Chewing Gum?
No decision yet - but both the star and Channel 4 are believed to be keen for more of the E4 hit.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 9th February 2017Why this is a glass-ceiling moment for women in comedy
Kerry Howard and Zoë Boyle reveal why we could be at a turning point for funny women.
Eleanor Bley Griffiths, Radio Times, 20th January 2017In light of last week's cracking series two opener, this week Michaela Coel's comedy feels slightly lighter on big laughs, its humour more understated. A now homeless Tracey wants to move back in with her mum, who stipulates she demonstrate her Christian piety first. Meanwhile, Tracey is pursued with a strange intensity by a posh, attractive man, a plot that allows the show to once again explore the objectification of black people with both wit and a simmering rage.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 19th January 2017Chewing Gum was gamey meat indeed. Michaela Coel sassed and swore her way to a clutch of deserved awards in 2015, and returns with a second series that certainly doesn't rely on lazy stereotypes. Her character, Tracey, is - I'm fairly sure this is unique - an exuberantly dysfunctional twentysomething, ex-religious, black, mouthy virgin with a great line in backchat and an endless capacity for self-deception. Its relentless energy leaves one's limbs akimbo on the sofa, pebble-dashed with loud, flirty vomit. First watching, I hated it. Second, I loved it, and got it. Third - who's to know? A constant blithering surprise, and thus to be truly cherished in TV-land.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 15th January 2017TV review: Chewing Gum, E4
It's good to have Chewing Gum back. It's very different to any other series I've seen recently, while at the same time it has echoes of the BBC hit Fleabag, which it preceded. If that programme was all Phoebe Waller-Bridge's idea about contemporary attitudes to sex, then Chewing Gum is very much Michaela Coel's view of modern romance.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th January 2017Chewing Gum deserves our attention - review
If life were a sitcom, the scenario would happen in a corner shop just after you've accidentally scrawled pen on your forehead, as happens in the opening episode of series two of the cult hit Chewing Gum (E4).
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 13th January 2017Chewing Gum review
A slice of working-class urban life is shoved rudely, and gloriously, in your face.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 13th January 2017