Big School

2013

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  • 2
  • 1
6.7| NA| en| More Info
Released: 16 August 2013 Ended
Producted By: King Bert Productions
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g6pq3
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A comedy about a dysfunctional staff room, unrequited love and interactive whiteboards set in an urban secondary school. Chemistry teacher Mr. Church is hopelessly in love with the school's new French teacher, who in turn is being chased by a lothario gym teacher.

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Comedy

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Big School Audience Reviews

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
SunnyHello Nice effects though.
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Prismark10 David Walliams created and starred in this traditional family sitcom set in Greybridge Secondary School in North London. It had an irritatingly catchy theme tune.The school setting allows it to have an interplay between the various eccentric teachers and the pupils who found the teachers boring. Walliams played the socially awkward chemistry teacher Mr Church who has the hots for new French teacher Miss Postern (Catherine Tate) who is not very good at French, never been to France and thinks she is really beautiful and men fall over for her. In a sense that is true. Mr Gunn (Philip Glenister) is the macho PE teacher who also has the hots for Miss Postern and vies with Mr Church for her attention. He has a nice line in smutty humour.Mr Barber (Steve Speirs) is the disorganised Geography teacher who is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. He returned in the second series demoted as the caretaker. Speirs stole the show with his hound dog face. Mr Hubble (James Greene) is the head of science who is too old and confused. Julie T Wallace is the lab assistant who is infatuated with Mr Church.Frances De La Tour is the headmistress who is too drunk to care about the teachers and the pupils. Daniel Rigby is the music teacher who dreams of being a famous singer-songwriter.The series was never very funny but it was amiable enough and something you can watch with all the family. I think Walliams put too much effort with his characters and needed to pepper the script with stronger and more off beat humour.
studioAT Big School is a sitcom that has a lot going for it. David Walliams' popularity has never been higher thanks to his stint on BGT and he is ably supported by people like Catherine Tate and the very talented Daniel Rigby. With all that talent behind it though 'Big School' should be so much better, smarter and funnier than it actually is.It is an inconsistent show. One moment you can be laughing at a well written joke but then you sit in silence while lots of unfunny things happen for the next five minutes. Some of the characters aren't really that funny and the plot lines waver from being good to terrible week on week. Although the attempt at a 'will they/won't they?' romance is nice,when it is lost in what really is a collection of school based sketches it doesn't work.It doesn't seem to know where it sits in tone either. One minute it warrants its 9:30pm slot and then it does lots of childish jokes that wouldn't look out of place in a family comedy slot instead.I know we're not blessed with a lot of decent sitcoms in the UK at the moment and that 'Big School' is a lot better than some of the others we have to endure, but even so, it's a show that should and could be good rather than one that is.
edfilmsuk So the BBC released a promo for this show, and two comedians who I like very much (Walliams and Tate) were featured in it. I thought, "I should watch it". I missed the first three episodes but caught up on iPlayer, and may I say I'm glad I did.This show is underrated by other reviewers on IMDb, it really is a good 30 minutes of British TV. The characters are good and the episodes are entertaining and funny on most occasions. It's not THE BEST comedy show there is, but it really is on my top list for the moment. I recommend trying the series on iPlayer, it's worth it. Walliams and Tate work well together on screen, and despite having some sadly true moments, it has very laugh out loud comical moments.
Jan-Peter Scheffer The present, ridiculously low score prompted me to write a short review.The setting, the story, the characters of Big School are both typically British and universal, and though each character is well defined by their role, each actor in the very talented cast is allowed to show their individual craft, sometimes genius, a freedom that, especially in the experienced hands of David Walliams, Catherine Tate and Philip Glenister, produces some high quality comedic characterizations of the archetypal figures that we encounter in the odd, but equally classic school setting that they populate.I can't fault this production, having very much enjoyed the first two episodes, and I'm rather looking forward to seeing the rest of this well-thought-out, well-produced new BBC series.

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