C4 announces female Inbetweeners spin-off

C4 announces female Inbetweeners spin-off
C4 announces female Inbetweeners spin-off (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

The team behind hit teen comedy The Inbetweeners are launching a female spin-off of the show. The show, called Drifters, features three of the stars of the spin-off movie - Lydia Rose Bewley and Jessica Knappett (pictured), who played clubbers Jane and Lisa, and Lauren O'Rourke, who played Neil's girlfriend. The trio play three friends stuck in dead-end jobs in Leeds while they're trying to figure out what to do with their lives. Bob Mortimer will star as one of their fathers in the Channel 4 show, written by Jessica. Iain Morris, one of the creators of The Inbetweeners, is executive producer on Drifters. He said: "We're lucky and delighted to be involved with Jess's new sitcom. We knew from our time working with her whilst shooting The Inbetweeners movie that she was hysterically funny, not least because she created the production's unofficial drinking den, Bar Knappett, in her hotel room." The Inbetweeners has already inspired a US remake, and the film version - which followed its four main stars on a booze-fuelled holiday in Malia - was a huge cinema hit.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.