People Just Do Nothing

People Just Do Nothing
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Genre
Created by
Written by
  • Steve Stamp
  • Allan "Seapa" Mustafa
Directed byJack Clough
Starring
  • Allan "Seapa" Mustafa
  • Hugo Chegwin
  • Asim Chaudhry
  • Steve Stamp
  • Dan Sylvester
  • Lily Brazier
  • Ruth Bratt[1]
  • Olivia Jasmine Edwards
Composers
  • Hugo Chegwin
  • Harry Craze
  • Allan "Seapa" Mustafa
  • Steve Stamp (s. 2)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes27 (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Jon Petrie (s. 1–3)
  • Jack Clough (s. 4–5)
Cinematography
  • Jamie Cairney (s. 1)
  • Si Bell (s. 2)
  • Matthew Wicks (s. 3–5)
EditorGareth Heal
Running time25–30 minutes
Production companyRoughcut TV
Original release
Network
Release20 July 2014 (2014-07-20) –
17 December 2018 (2018-12-17)
Related
People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan
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People Just Do Nothing is a British television mockumentary sitcom, created and performed by Allan "Seapa" Mustafa, Steve Stamp, Asim Chaudhry and Hugo Chegwin.

The programme follows the lives of MC Grindah, DJ Beats and their friends, who run Kurupt FM, a pirate radio station broadcasting UK garage and drum and bass music from Brentford in West London.

The programme originally began as a series of online shorts that became popular enough that the group were asked to make a pilot episode for BBC3's Comedy Feeds. The first series was released on BBC Three in July 2014, with the fifth and final series airing on BBC Two in 2018.[2] A film continuation, People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan, was released in August 2021.

In 2017, the show won the BAFTA award and Royal Television Society award for Best Scripted Comedy.[3][4] Many of the actors in the show have gone on to tour as a musical act, in character as their personas from Kurupt FM.


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  1. ^ Johnston, Rich (5 August 2022). "Dave Hearn Talks Starship Improvise, The Avengers Of Improv Shows". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  2. ^ "One of the funniest TV shows of recent years has been renewed for a final season". 1 May 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  3. ^ BAFTA TV Awards 2017: Full winners' list. NME.
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