Pls Like
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2017 - 2021
- 18 episodes (3 series)
Mockumentary starring Liam Williams as a man learning how to become a YouTube star. Also features Tim Key, Emma Sidi, Jon Pointing, Arnab Chanda, Tom Stourton and more.
Press clippings Page 2
Liam Williams wraps up his mockumentary satire of YouTube berks by finally arriving at the Likeys awards, where the story of far-right crybabies spreading poison through vlogs comes rather earnestly to a head. Before that are more fine spoofs of baffling sub-genres: tonight, the erotic itch of ASMR.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 12th October 2018Pls Like: the comedy that catches YouTube's dark side
Liam Williams's well-observed mockumentary digs into the real-life furores surrounding vloggers like PewDiePie and Logan Paul in its daring second series
Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 27th September 2018Pls Like Series 2 review
As a whole it's an often very funny and smart series, with some great ideas and satirical elements which are quite biting. But by choosing to make the character of Liam Williams more idiotic, throwing in a few scenes which are truly absurd, and prone to on the nose humour, I didn't enjoy it quite as much.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 26th September 2018Pls Like, series two, review
Brilliant YouTube satire moves into darker territory.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 25th September 2018In The Long Run and Pls Like win at Broadcast Digital Awards
In The Long Run and Pls Like were amongst the winners at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2018.
British Comedy Guide, 4th July 2018Pls Like Series 2 confirmed
The BBC has ordered a second series of Pls Like, the BAFTA-nominated comedy that spoofs online video bloggers.
British Comedy Guide, 19th June 2018TV and web comedies up for Broadcast Digital Awards 2018
Chewing Gum, In The Long Run, Man Like Mobeen, Roast Battle, The Young Offenders and This Country are amongst the nominees for the Broadcast Digital Awards 2018.
British Comedy Guide, 16th May 2018BAFTA TV Award nominees 2018
Catastrophe, Chewing Gum, This Country and Timewasters are amongst the BAFTA TV Awards 2018 nominees. Stars including Adam Hills, Graham Norton, Michael McIntyre and Sandi Toksvig have also been nominated.
British Comedy Guide, 4th April 2018The best comedy is written in turbulent times
If, in 2017, you needed respite from our dire economic prospects, the whims of Donald Trump or the Damoclean sword of North Korea, you could find it on British television. Three of the year's best new shows - Pls Like, This Country and Back - were welcome proof that reports of the death of the sitcom have been greatly exaggerated.
Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 10th December 201750 best TV shows of 2017, #19: A mockumentary satirising popular YouTubers as vapid shills might be shooting fish in a barrel, but Liam Williams's aim was still satisfyingly, mercilessly accurate.
The Guardian, 30th November 2017