Fresh Meat: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Meet the mismatched students sharing a house in hit Ch4 comedy drama
Year: 2011-2016
Certificate: 15
Jesse Armstrong, the creator of Succession, co-wrote this comedy with his Peep Show collaborator Sam Bain. Set inside a student house, it probably has more in common with Peep Show than Succession, but you can still see seeds here that would grow into the Mephistophelean monstrosity that is the most recent show, the satirical dramedy about a family-run media empire.
Awkwardness abounds, with punches and slaps of the wildly unexpected delivered through sharp dialogue as well as physical humour. Jack Whitehall's character JP and Joe Thomas's Kingsley offer fractious banter similar to that between Tom and Greg (Matthew Macfadyen and Nicholas Braun) in Succession.
Plus it all plays out in a kind of evolution of The Young Ones house - it's got more mod cons and most of its walls are intact - but is similarly populated by a supremely mismatched bunch of students, sharing a house by virtue of an offer via UCAS and that alone. (Four series)
