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Bad Education is a British television sitcom set in a dysfunctional secondary school broadcast on BBC Three. Running from August 2012 to October 2014, the first three series were written by Jack Whitehall , who starred as Alfie Wickers, "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system".
Bad Education: With Layton Williams, Mathew Horne, Charlie Wernham, Jack Whitehall. Comedy series about a teacher who is a bigger kid than the kids he teaches.
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is a British sitcom that was produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Three.
At the time of the series launch in August 2012 it broke BBC Three's record for the highest-rated first episode of a comedy, which was previously held by Horne & Corden, but is now held by Cuckoo. The second series premiered on BBC iPlayer on 27 August 2013. A week before the television air date of 3 September, as part of BBC Three's plans to premiere all its scripted comedy programmes online. This experiment proved successful, as the first episode of the second series received 1.5 million requests prior to its television airing. A Christmas special aired on 17 December 2013.
The series focuses on Alfie Wickers (Jack Whitehall), a posh, newly graduated secondary school history teacher at the fictional Abbey Grove School, in Watford or Tring, Hertfordshire. Ever determined to impress his crush, Rosie Gulliver (Sarah Solemani) Wickers makes repeated efforts to appear "cool", such as coaching the school football team, organising a weapons amnesty and fielding a candidate for the school elections. Usually, in these efforts, he turns to his mismatched class for help, despite them often disapproving of his actions. They are teacher's pet Joe (Lawrence), tough guy Mitchell (Wernham), wheelchair-bound rudeboy Rem Dog (Binstead), inappropriately flirtatious Chantelle (Runeckles), camp Stephen (Williams), the studious Jing (Alexander) and outwardly fiery Cleopatra (Opia).
At the same time, Wickers finds himself having to deal with the shenanigans of his eccentric headmaster, Shaquille "Simon" Fraser (Horne) and meet the expectations of a string of deputy heads: at first demanding dictator Isobel Pickwell (Gomez), then the ruthless yet cringeworthy Professor Celia "Pro Green" Green (Spiro), and then his own father, dramatically inappropriate Martin Wickers (Enfield). It is clarified in the final season that the entire show spans a single academic year.
•Jack Whitehall as Alfie Wickers
•Matthew Horne as Shaquille Fraser
•Michelle Gomez as Isobel Pickwell
•Sarah Solemani as Rosie Gulliver
•Leila Hoffman as Olive Mollinson
•Nikki Runeckles as Chantelle Parsons
•Main article: List of Bad Education episodes
On 27 February 2015, Whitehall confirmed that a feature film edition of Bad Education was in production. Filming took place in Cornwall with the majority of the main cast all reprising their roles for the film. The film is titled The Bad Education Movie and was released on 21 August 2015 in the UK. The film saw ineffectual teacher Alfie Wickers tra...
A pilot for a U.S. adaptation of Bad Education, named An American Education, was ordered by with Whitehall set to reprise his role as Alfie Wickers. The pilot began filming in Los Angeles in January 2014. However, ABC passed on the pilot on 22 May 2014, but Whitehall would continue with the original UK series of the show, until Whitehall started ma...
The series received mixed reviews from the British press. The Guardian called it "in poor taste" and accused Whitehall of "phoning it in". The Daily Telegraph gave the show a rating of 2 out of 5, claiming that the show "uses too many stereotypes" and that Whitehall "tends to repeat many jokes" rather than creating new ones. Both the Daily Mirror a...
Apr 29, 2020 · Over the weekend, HBO released Bad Education, a Hugh Jackman -led film about a real life school scandal that took place nearly two decades ago in an affluent suburb of Long Island.
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Jan 12, 2024 · Hit BBC Three comedy Bad Education is back in class for a fifth series at Abbey Grove. The fifth series (6 x 30 minute episodes) comes to BBC Three and BBC iPlayer in early 2024 and is made...
The Exam. Fraser discovers that Alfie never got his Biology CSE and tells him he must sit it or lose his teaching job. This involves him being a pupil in Miss Gulliver's class and sparring with his fellow students so he decides the only way to pass is to cheat.
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A history teacher at the posh Abbey Grove, Alfie Wickers is something truly special: He's his school's, if not England's, single worst educator. Watch trailers & learn more.
