Pete Versus Life is a brand new comedy for Channel 4. Let’s be honest – lately, that hasn’t meant much as BBC Two and Four have been getting all the good stuff lately. Anyway, this new series, written by the writers of Star Stories (again, not a great sign) and made by the producers of Peep Show (that’s better) and the series starts on Friday, 6 Aug at 10pm. And we have clips.
Pete Griffiths, played by some chap called Rafe Spall, is a struggling young sports journo and, although he’s well meaning, he often lacks the emotional maturity required to deal with life’s more intricate problems. Sounds like a typical writer to us.
Pete wishes that life had clearly defined rules, like sport. But life isn’t like sport, as Pete is only beginning to realise.
Pete’s life is commented on, as if it was an exciting sporting event, by two professional sport commentators – anchor man Colin King (Simon Greenall), and former international footballer Terry McIlroy (Ian Kirkby).
Like a modern Greek chorus, Colin and Terry discuss and analyse Pete’s domestic fuck-ups with accompanying statistics, on screen graphics and slow motion replays.
Pete Versus Life also stars a bunch of other people.
Anyway, here’s some links to see the clips of the show that we’re probably not supposed to share with you, but we are (please note: We were told that it was completely fine to share these with you but we’re just trying to act hard).
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