Fresh Meat

Joe Thomas: 'It's a sexual cobweb!'

The Inbetweeners' Joe Thomas starts a second term as undergraduate Kingsley as the university comedy Fresh Meat.

Zawe Ashton interview

TV Choice caught up with Zawe Ashton at the start of a new term at Manchester Medlock University...

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...

Zawe Ashton interview

The Fresh Meat star on working in a cinema in Hackney, growing up on British television and moving to LA next year.

Zawe Ashton interview

She's the drug-addled, foul-mouthed student who steals the show in Channel 4's Fresh Meat, but Zawe Ashton is a lot more nuanced than her character. Now the actress is starting to put her own strongly-held opinions into words for stage and screen.

Fresh Meat wins Televisual award

Peep Show creators Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain came up with the goods once more with Fresh Meat, following the exploits of six students in a shared house off-campus.

Radio Times review

The 32nd best TV show of 2011 according to the Radio Times.

This comedy from the creators of Peep Show was an ever so slightly more grown-up, self-assured successor to The Inbetweeners. It even starred an Inbetweener: actor Joe Thomas playing yet another gaffe-prone, luckless-in-love student. And like its puerile younger brother, Fresh Meat had both teens and their middle-aged parents guffawing at the misadventures of its protagonists, six gauche undergraduates. Side-splitting moment? Swaggering public schoolboy JP (stand-up comic Jack Whitehall, proving he's adept at more than one-liners in his first acting role) bonding with a dying horse after over-indulging.

"It's going to be rape, yah." When a character expresses enthusiasm in this way, he better be a complete spanner and the show better be good. Thankfully both JP and the student comedy Fresh Meat - just finished its first run, more please - delivered.

Fresh Meat's finale was touching and amusing

As Fresh Meat's first series drew to a close, Jack Whitehall proved his acting worth in a satisfying - and touching - final episode.

Fresh Meat, 1.8 - series finale

It wasn't the best way to end Fresh Meat's first series, but I'm nevertheless glad Channel 4 have renewed this show for another series.