Wannabe - BBC3 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Wannabe. Image shows from L to R: Mikey (Jim Howick), Sarah (Alexis Strum), Maxine (Lily Brazier), Mel (Amy Booth-Steel), Neil (Nicholas Burns)

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

2018

Channel

BBC Three

Episodes

4 (1 series)

Stars

Lily Brazier, Nicholas Burns, Jim Howick, Amy Booth-Steel, Alexis Strum, Savannah Steyn, Karla Simone Spence, Imogen Gurney and more

Writers

Lily Brazier, Ben Murray and Steve Stamp

Director

Ben Murray

Producers

Claire McCarthy, Jack Newman, Lily Brazier, Ben Murray and Anne Patterson

Company

Back in the girl-power heyday of the 90s, a hit single would easily get you 15 minutes of fame. But 15 minutes is not quite enough for some people.

Maxine never made it to the big time as part of girl group Variety, but is still desperately trying to cling on to her dream as the (failing) music manager for teenage pop group Sweet Gyal. However Maxine finds herself in crisis when, fed up of her trying to live vicariously through them and her embarrassing attempts to get them a record deal, Sweet Gyal threaten to drop her.

But Maxine has come up with a plan. A come back. This time bigger, bolder and, well... older. Who cares about a hip young girl group anyway?! What the world is really missing is Mum Pop.

And so begins a new obsession with tracking down her ex-bandmates and relaunching her life in the limelight.

Additional details

Part of

BBC Comedy Pilots 2017

BBC Comedy Slices 2017

Production

Location

Camera set-up

Single camera

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Thursday 29th March 2018 at 10pm on BBC Three

Most recent repeats

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