Witless (TV series)

Witless
Genre
  • Comedy
  • thriller
Created byLloyd Woolf, Joe Tucker
Written byLloyd Woolf, Joe Tucker
Directed byAndrew Chaplin
StarringKerry Howard
Zoe Boyle
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes15
Production
ProducerCharlotte Lewis
Running time25 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC Three
Release22 April 2016 (2016-04-22) –
10 January 2018 (2018-01-10)
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Witless is a British thriller sitcom created by Lloyd Woolf and Joe Tucker, produced by Objective Fiction, part of Objective Media Group, for the BBC. The first episode of the first series was released on 22 April 2016 on BBC Three, with a new episode weekly. A second series was commissioned prior to the series finale to air in early 2017, with the full series released on 25 January 2017. A third series[1] was commissioned on 23 February 2017, in a statement co-star Kerry Howard said she was "beyond thrilled that Witless has a third series". The full third series was released on 10 January 2018. Before it was released Howard confirmed on her Twitter page that this would be the final series.[2]

Two young women, Rhona and Leanne (played by Zoe Boyle and Kerry Howard), who share a flat in Bristol, are later placed in witness protection after witnessing a murder.[3] They are given new identities and moved to a flat in Swindon where they find their very recent past coming back to haunt them whilst they attempt to blend in with their surroundings.

  1. ^ BBC Media Centre. "Witless gets third outing on BBC Three". BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  2. ^ Bennett, Aoife (22 April 2016). "BBC3's Witless - meet the cast of the show starring Kerry Howard". Radio Times. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  3. ^ British Comedy Guide. "Witless - BBC3 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide". Comedy.co.uk. Retrieved 22 July 2016.