Kurupting The Industry: The People Just Do Nothing Story
- TV documentary
- BBC Three (Online)
- 2021
- 1 episode
Documentary about TV comedy People Just Do Nothing and its rise from internet beginnings to feature film. Features Allan Mustafa, Steve Stamp, Asim Chaudhry, Hugo Chegwin, Lily Brazier and more.
Press clippings
Kurupting The Industry and This Way Up reviews
It is a salutary lesson about the pockets of untapped creative potential that lie around this country, beyond the Radas and the Lamdas, if they only get the chance.
Carol Midgley, The Times, 12th August 2021Kurupting The Industry review
A bemused celebration of the sitcom.
Gerard Gilbert, i Newspaper, 11th August 2021Kurupting The Industry review
This documentary on the story behind the Bafta-winning show about pirate radio is shameless puffery - but is no poorer for it.
Benji Wilson, The Telegraph, 11th August 2021TV preview: The People Just Do Nothing Story
On the face of it, a comedy about a group of very unlikely lads running a pirate radio station in Brentford, west London, sounds as though it might not be the average middle-aged woman's Americano (your previewer being the MAW in question). I mean, drum and bass, garage music, Brentford, tracky bottoms and baseball caps? But funny is funny.
Alison Rowat, The Herald, 7th August 2021People Just Do Nothing documentary coming to BBC
The stars of People Just Do Nothing have reunited to make a documentary about their rise from internet obscurity to television popularity and upcoming feature film Big In Japan, for a new BBC Three documentary, Kurupting The Industry: The People Just Do Nothing Story.
British Comedy Guide, 20th July 2021