Fresh Meat

Greg McHugh: As fresher I woke up with a TV on my back

"Howard is the oddball of the house. In the opening scene he is hair-drying Peking ducks without any trousers or indeed pants on...which was a lot of fun to shoot, as you can imagine!"

Jack Whitehall: John Bishop saved my student comic nite

"The first night we did it our headliner pulled out so I frantically called round to find a replacement. Someone gave me the name of a stand-up based up north that I'd never heard of..."

Fresh Meat, Channel 4, review

Fresh Meat is the first successful comedy about students for almost 30 years, and judging by the second series opener, it could easily be sustained for a long time yet.

Fresh Meat: Series 2 Episode 1 review

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

We Recommend: Fresh Meat

It's interesting, it's engaging, and it provides some of the best watching-behind-your-hands moments that I've ever come across.

It's term two and the housemates need to find a newbie now that Paul Lamb, the Invisible Man has moved out. Kingsley is experimenting with facial hair, Shales and Oregon are over - which is awkward in lectures - and Josie has a new best friend. But what of her and the Pussy Man? Vod is on the scrounge again and Howard's got a new job at the abattoir, while JP is struggling with his best friend's latest revelation. No timid fresher, this: Fresh Meat established itself so quickly as part of the TV landscape, it's like they've never been away.

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.

Fresh Meat: How accurate is it?

It's hilarious, but how accurate a depiction of student life is Fresh Meat?

Another returning favourite: the uni flatshare malarkey with the posh berk, the girl-next-door, the sensitive lad, the weird one who gets off with her tutor, the really weird one - and the Scot. Unless they can persuade some poor sap to move in with them, the rent's going up 100 quid. The guided 
tour: "This doesn't open, this doesn't close, it always smells here..."

Fresh Meat cast interview

That Fresh Meat was commissioned for a second series (before the first's run had even finished, let's not forget) was hardly surprising. Devised by Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, it survived some tepid early reviews to score strong ratings.