Fresh Meat
- TV comedy drama
- Channel 4
- 2011 - 2016
- 30 episodes (4 series)
Comedy drama following six mis-matched students who are starting university in Manchester and sharing the same house together. Stars Jack Whitehall, Joe Thomas, Charlotte Ritchie, Kimberley Nixon, Zawe Ashton and more.
Streaming rank this week: 142
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Series 4, Episode 2
Further details
As the housemates face some difficult questions about life after university, Vod thinks a new job in a pub is the answer to her money worries but she didn't plan for her housemates becoming regulars, tapping her up for free drinks. Which is helpful for heart-broken Howard who seems to have developed a slight drinking problem since his break-up with Candice.
President Oregon, looking at cementing her legacy, makes the somewhat rash decision to set up a poetry competition in her name, but when word gets out that she's cutting sports funding in order to do so the student body are less than impressed.
Josie is on the hunt for some new housemates but none of the hopeful candidates are reaching her exacting tea-making standards, and there's a bump in Kingsley's blossoming relationship with Rosa when she drops the bombshell that she has a son. And he's how old?
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 29th February 2016
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 50 minutes
Cast & crew
| Jack Whitehall | JP |
| Joe Thomas | Kingsley |
| Charlotte Ritchie | Oregon |
| Kimberley Nixon | Josie |
| Zawe Ashton | Vod |
| Greg McHugh | Howard |
| Ayda Field | Rosa |
| Sam Benjamin | Rugby Lad |
| Beattie Edmondson | Helen |
| Leo Flanagan | Albert |
| Alexander Kirk | Mr Tumnus |
| Archie Madekwe | Luca |
| Nick Mohammed | Nas |
| James Puddephatt | Reuben |
| Tom Basden | Writer |
| Hannah Mackay | Script Editor |
| Jamie Jay Johnson | Director |
| Tony Roche | Director |
| Rhonda Smith | Producer |
| Judy Counihan | Executive Producer |
| Andrew Newman | Executive Producer |
| Sam Bain | Executive Producer |
| Jesse Armstrong | Executive Producer |
| Charlie Fawcett | Editor |
| Tom Sayer | Production Designer |
| Christian Henson | Composer |
Video
Mature Man
Has Kingsley got what it takes to be a potential father figure?
Press
Fresh Meat's final series has seen its supine students start to think about their futures, albeit with a fair bit of fantasy attached: JP wants to be a sashimi chef, and Kingsley thinks a geology degree will set him up nicely for a radio career. Oddly, it's only Vod who is sorting out her present, tackling her debt woes by getting a job at the pub - bringing out a drinking problem in Howard in the process. And Josie is on the hunt for new housemates: she's after people with the qualities of Ken Hom, Kate Bush and, er, Barney the Dinosaur.
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 29th February 2016The last-ever series (boo) of Fresh Meat told us that comedy on C4 might never get better. Eleven weeks away from finals, one night off. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" asks tequila Josie of the supine JP, and therein awaits an entire ocean of stupidity.
The naming of JP's brother as "Tomothy", and JP's explanation, was quiet genius, as has been the strength of Jack Whitehall, and writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, all along.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 28th February 2016