British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
This Is Jinsy. Image shows from L to R: Maven (Justin Chubb), Sporall (Chris Bran). Copyright: The Welded Tandem Picture Company
This Is Jinsy

This Is Jinsy

  • TV sitcom
  • Sky Atlantic / BBC Three
  • 2010 - 2014
  • 17 episodes (2 series)

Surreal comedy set on a fictional island inhabited by a range of oddball characters. Created by Chris Bran and Justin Chubb. Stars Justin Chubb, Chris Bran, Alice Lowe, Geoffrey McGivern, Janine Duvitski and more.

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Guest Star Photos

This Is Jinsy. Image shows from L to R: Trince (Geoffrey McGivern), Maven (Justin Chubb), Sporall (Chris Bran), Soosan Noop (Alice Lowe). Copyright: The Welded Tandem Picture Company

Lots of guest stars are due to appear in Sky's new sitcom This Is Jinsy. Here's pictures of a couple of them...

Simon Callow and Nigel Planer

Veteran actor Simon Callow and The Young Ones star Nigel Planer both appear in Episode 5...

This Is Jinsy. Image shows from L to R: Sporall (Chris Bran), Man With No Nameworm (Nigel Planer), Threcker (Simon Callow), Maven (Justin Chubb). Copyright: The Welded Tandem Picture Company

Simon Callow plays Threcker (pictured below), an officious ex-teacher of Maven's who delights in tormenting Jinsy's arbiter. He is responsible from extracting nameworms from deceased islanders and inserting them into new-borns.

This Is Jinsy. Threcker (Simon Callow). Copyright: The Welded Tandem Picture Company

Nigel Planer is the Man With No Nameworm. Smaller than a tree, but bigger than a ball, the Man With No Nameworm lives a solitary and rather boring existence in a miniature chalet in Jinsy's abandoned model village.

This Is Jinsy. Image shows from L to R: Man With No Nameworm (Nigel Planer), Threcker (Simon Callow). Copyright: The Welded Tandem Picture Company

Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate plays Roopina Crale in Episode 3. When it comes to cleanliness, Chief Editor for island magazine Glove Hygiene Monthly Roopina leads the way. She comes to Jinsy to interview the island’s Arbiter Maven, but there may be more to her than meets the eye...

This Is Jinsy. Roopina Crale (Catherine Tate). Copyright: The Welded Tandem Picture Company
This Is Jinsy. Image shows from L to R: Roopina Crale (Catherine Tate), Maven (Justin Chubb). Copyright: The Welded Tandem Picture Company

Peter Serafinowicz

Peter Serafinowicz, who appears in the second episode of This Is Jinsy, plays Eric Dunt, a seedy and unscrupulous cupboard salesman, who discovers he can make a killing touting his second-rate wares after the people of Jinsy become convinced he is The Great He (the hugely worshipped but never seen governor of Jinsy island).

This Is Jinsy. Image shows from L to R: Eric Dunt (Peter Serafinowicz), Maven (Justin Chubb). Copyright: The Welded Tandem Picture Company

David Tennant

David Tennant guest stars in the first episode of This Is Jinsy as Mr Slightlyman, an outrageously camp wedding planner with a penchant for plastic surgery. On Jinsy island, he's a local celebrity and calls himself the 'Master of Balls' as he's in charge of the marriage lottery.

This Is Jinsy. Mr Slightlyman (David Tennant). Copyright: The Welded Tandem Picture Company
This Is Jinsy. Image shows from L to R: Maven (Justin Chubb), Mr Slightlyman (David Tennant), Sporall (Chris Bran). Copyright: The Welded Tandem Picture Company

Harry Hill

TV Burp star Harry Hill appears as Joon Boolay, the punishment administrator on Jinsy, issuing a range of punishments from suspension of dance vouchers to mild electric shocks, all part of her regular Punishment Round-Up from her TV studios.

This Is Jinsy. Joon Boolay (Harry Hill). Copyright: The Welded Tandem Picture Company
Published: Tuesday 2nd August 2011

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