Witless
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2016 - 2018
- 15 episodes (3 series)
Sitcom about two flatmates who enter witness protection after seeing a vicious gangland shooting. Stars Kerry Howard, Zoe Boyle, Samuel Anderson, Nicholas Fruin, T'Nia Miller and more.
Streaming rank this week: 8,064
Press clippings
The best British crime comedy TV series
Who knew drug gangs, murder and front-line policing could be such a barrel of laughs? Featuring Matt Berry's Year Of The Rabbit, brand-new Black Ops and more.
Laura Vickers-Green, Den Of Geek, 3rd June 2023Witless gets US remake
BBC sitcom Witless is getting an American remake. CBS Studios have optioned the rights to Lloyd Woolf and Joe Tucker's comedy.
British Comedy Guide, 21st September 2020Funny Girls - Derry Girls (C4); Witless (BBC 3/iPlayer)
Women are funny. No, that's not a misogynist comment, comedians who happen to be female are as funny, often more funny, than their male colleagues. That statement may sound as misogynist as the first line, but the subject of women in comedy has been the subject of books, TV documentaries and University dissertations. Comedy is still a male dominated industry, but the balance is shifting.
Shouting At The Telly, 12th January 2018Review: Witless, BBC Three
The third series of comedy thriller Witless has just come out on iPlayer in one big five-episode dollop. And if you think Leanne and Rhona are going to be able to go back to their boring, ordinary lives then you clearly haven't been paying attention. These two have about as much chance of avoiding scrapes as Eamonn Holmes has of winning the World Boxing Championships.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th January 2018Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle interview
Here's what Kerry and Zoe had say about the third and final series...
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 8th January 2018Witless returns for Series 3
BBC Three sitcom Witless, starring Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle, is to return for a third series.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd February 2017Kerry Howard interview
"Meeting Julie Walters, was so exciting I literally lactated."
Eleanor Bley Griffiths, Radio Times, 28th January 2017Meet the farcical female double act from Witless
We speak to Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle as the second series of their witness protection comedy comes to BBC Three.
Anna Leszkiewicz, The New Statesman, 27th January 2017I talk to: Kerry Howard & Zoe Boyle
Witless is back for a second series on BBC Three, just nine months after THAT cliffhanger at the end of series one. And the good news is that all five episodes will be available to watch at once.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 22nd January 2017Why this is a glass-ceiling moment for women in comedy
Kerry Howard and Zoë Boyle reveal why we could be at a turning point for funny women.
Eleanor Bley Griffiths, Radio Times, 20th January 2017