Off The Hook Coming To BBC3

2 months ago 07th Sep 14:45

Off The Hook piloted as Fresh last September on the BBC’s new cross platform station BBC Switch and was an instant hit.

Fresh has now become Off The Hook and the seven episode series debuts on BBC3 and BBC Switch this Autumn.

The show will include original cast members Jonathan Bailey as ‘Danny’, Danny Morgan, who since Fresh has co-presented on Channel 4’s Tonightly, as ‘Shane’, Joanna Cassidy as ‘Scarlet’ and James Buckley,  who most famously appeared as young deviant Jay in the Inbetweeners, as ‘Fred’.

They will be joined by an ensemble of supporting roles that include Felicity Montagu and rising comedy stars Georgia King and Jonny Sweet.

Off the Hook is a comedy set on campus at Bankside University, exploring the lives of a mismatched group of fresh-faced students and their first taste of independent life, with all the mishaps and misadventures that entails. 

Series One plots a calamitous course from the social whirlwind of fresher’s week through the first term of university each episode a new comic adventure. 

The story centres on Danny, who just wants to cut his past loose and get on with his life but he’s about to get an earth-shattering blast from the past in the form of Shane, his outrageous ‘slacker’ mate from school the ‘worst best friend ever’. 

Blagging his way into last minute clearing, Shane proceeds to gatecrash Danny’s entire uni existence and ransack his best-laid plans. 

Sharing the flat with our hapless heroes are the feisty Scarlet and the permanently morose Fred who has misanthropy down to an art. 

Geoffrey Goodwin, Head of BBC Switch says: "Off the Hook is an aspirational comedy which combines superb storylines with a young British cast.

"Moving a show from online to TV is a great creative process which allows us to really develop the show and nurture the talent while building up a dedicated following online so that the show has a lot of thrust and energy behind it when it hits TV."