The First Team (New BBC Comedy) 21:07 - May 29 with 2429 views | slmrstid | By the creators of The Inbetweeners - saw the first episode on BBC2 last night then watched the rest of it on iPlayer today. Anyone watch it? On the whole - although it is based on Premiership football - actually very little football. Typical Inbetweeners style with hands over your face type awkward humour, and some good laugh out loud bits... though on the whole probably not really that good but I still managed to get hooked. Football is a very hard thing to make a comedy out of as it just ends up a bit of a caricature of itself. Anyway, QPR link - I believe Iain Morris is a QPR fan? Definite QPR nuggets in there anyway - there's one scene in the fifth episode where the team is in the dressing room and you can see where they have the players names on the top of each dressing room bench...included in the names are "Tarabt" and "Bankole". Not sure if the "Tarabt" is a deliberate misspelling by the producers! There's one scene where they say goodbye to a long serving manager thats filmed at The Valley, and some outdoor bits at the Olympic Stadium. | | | | |
The First Team (New BBC Comedy) on 22:35 - May 29 with 2334 views | Antti_Heinola | Morris definitely an R, yes. | |
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The First Team (New BBC Comedy) on 09:19 - May 30 with 2161 views | FrankRightguard | Watched the first episode last night. Hoping the second episode may illicit a smile, perhaps even a chuckle. If it’s anything like the first I won’t get my hopes up. Dreadful. | | | |
The First Team (New BBC Comedy) on 10:30 - May 30 with 2091 views | LowerloftLad | Yeah the two main producers of the inbetweeners are big football fans Morris is the QPR fan the other is an arsenal fan | |
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The First Team (New BBC Comedy) on 15:38 - May 30 with 1983 views | theselector | And Henry Lloyd-Hughes, who played school bully Mark Donovan, is also Rangers. | | | |
The First Team (New BBC Comedy) on 14:38 - May 31 with 1833 views | tommyg01 | Also in the credits they mention a thanks to, Lee Hoos, Greg Warner and everyone at QPR and Liverppol FC. | | | |
The First Team (New BBC Comedy) on 14:44 - May 31 with 1822 views | Gloucs_R | Watched the first one and wasn't impressed. Did it get better? | |
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The First Team (New BBC Comedy) on 15:29 - May 31 with 1769 views | slmrstid | Overall, no,but there are some funny bits in each episode. Certainly not a classic and I'll be amazed if there is a series 2. | | | |
The First Team (New BBC Comedy) on 15:47 - May 31 with 1750 views | mcqpr10 | Didn't realise the QPR link but thought it was shockingly bad. Didn't even finish the first episode. Lots of lazy stereotypes. | | | |
The First Team (New BBC Comedy) on 17:27 - May 31 with 1678 views | Hayesender | Just struggled through two episodes. I won't be watching anymore | |
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