| Creator: | Joe Tucker Lloyd Woolf |
| Director: | Sandy Johnson Tristram Shapeero |
| Company: | Objective Productions |
| Starring: | Blake Harrison Rebecca Humphries David Fynn Seann Walsh James Fleet Caroline Quentin Scarlett Alice Johnson |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 8 |
| Executive Producer: | Ben Farrell Andrew Newman |
| Producer: | Kate Daughton |
| Runtime: | 22 minutes approx |
| Network: | Comedy Central |
Big Bad World is a British television sitcom which first aired on Comedy Central in 2013. Created by Joe Tucker and Lloyd Woolf, it stars Blake Harrison as Ben, a directionless, young graduate who returns to his hometown of Great Yarmouth after leaving university.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The show received a generally positive critical reaction with some mixed reviews. The Guardian praised the series as "a surprisingly engaging original series from Comedy Central UK"[5] and "a funny take on the challenges of adulthood".[6] The Metro said of episode 1, "So far, so promising. Harrison is adept at the whole man-child thing and he's surrounded by a convincing bunch of slacker, lives-going-nowhere mates, for whom a trip to Chelmsford is the height of excitement”[7] and later praised the show as "a clever and funny insight into graduate life".[8]
Criticising the show as being "marred by some unnecessarily post-Partridge moments", the Radio Times nevertheless said, "Big Bad World sparks into life when it stops trying too hard and forges its own path. Ben and Beth are easy to warm to, while Scarlett Johnson expertly cuts a diabolically fluffy figure as femme fatale Lucy."[9] DIY magazine praised the opening episode's "innate watchability", commenting that "Making us care for characters is no mean feat and creators Joe Tucker and Lloyd Woolf seem to have a plan to make us fall for Ben and his merry band of men and women. A few more episodes in to allow for everyone to settle in and it's fair to say that the future is promising for Big Bad World."[10]