The First Team (TV series)

The First Team
GenreComedy[1]
Created by
Written by
  • Damon Beesley
  • Iain Morris
Directed by
  • Damon Beesley
  • Iain Morris
Starring
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6 (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producers
  • Damon Beesley
  • Caroline Leddy
  • Iain Morris
  • Gregor Sharp
  • Tom Werner
ProducerSam Pinnell
CinematographySimon Tindall
Editors
  • Charlie Fawcett
  • William Webb
Running time27–30 minutes[2]
Production companies
Original release
Network
Release28 May (2020-05-28) –
2 July 2020 (2020-07-02)
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The First Team (stylised as The F1rst Team) is a British comedy television series, created by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, both well known for their work on The Inbetweeners.[3] The series follows the lives of Mattie Sullivan (Jake Short), Benji Achebe (Shaquille Ali-Yebuah) and Jack Turner (Jack McMullen), who are young players of a fictional Premier League football team.[4]

Produced by BBC Studios and the creators' production company Fudge Park Productions, the sole series began broadcasting on BBC Two on 28 May 2020, consisting of six episodes, concluding on 2 July the same year.[2] The series received mixed reviews by critics.[5][6]

  1. ^ "BBC Two - The First Team". BBC. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b "BBC iPlayer - The First Team". BBC. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Meet the cast of BBC Two's The First Team". The Radio Times.
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