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The Wrong Mans is a British comedy drama television series, produced by BBC Television and Hulu. It premiered on BBC Two on 24 September 2013 and in the United States on 11 November 2013.[1][2] Considered a critical and ratings success, it was co-created and written by Gavin & Stacey alumni James Corden and Mathew Baynton as an attempt to combine the situation comedy format with the intricate plotting and storytelling tropes of an action-adventure series.

A two-part sequel series aired on BBC Two in the runup to Christmas 2014, with Hulu broadcasting the same series in four parts on Christmas Eve.[3]

In 2018, it was announced that an American remake of the show was being produced for Showtime by J. J. Abrams's Bad Robot and BBC Studios. However, the pilot was later cancelled by Showtime.[4][5][6] In 2022, a French remake of the show called "The French Mans" was released on Disney+.[7]

Premise

Berkshire County Council worker Sam Pinkett and Phil Bourne, who doesn't work for the council but works inside the building, become entangled in a far-fetched web of crime, conspiracy and corruption after Sam answers a ringing mobile phone at the site of a car crash.

Cast

Producción

El 9 de octubre de 2012, la directora de BBC Two , Janice Hadlow, anunció The Wrong Mans como una coproducción entre BBC In-House Comedy y Hulu . [ 8 ] La serie fue encargada por Janice Hadlow y Cheryl Taylor. [ 8 ] Un piloto basado en la propuesta inicial de Baynton y Corden se había filmado previamente en 2010; algunos elementos se conservaron para lo que finalmente se convirtió en el primer episodio de la serie completa, incluyendo un cameo de David Harewood . [ 9 ] El rodaje principal de la serie comenzó en enero de 2013, al mismo tiempo que se anunció el reparto. [ 8 ] [ 10 ] Jeremy Dyson fue el editor de guion de la serie. [ 8 ]

La idea de la serie surgió inicialmente de una conversación entre Corden y Baynton en el set de Gavin & Stacey , cuatro años antes, [ 8 ] acerca de la aparente escasez de comedias de situación televisivas con el mismo nivel de trama intrincada y significativa que los éxitos dramáticos de la época, 24 y Lost . [ 11 ] Como punto de partida para su propia propuesta de programa de comedia de media hora a la BBC, el dúo se inspiró además en la película de los hermanos Coen , Burn After Reading , con su concepto central de personajes comunes obviamente fuera de lugar en un escenario típico de película de acción. [ 12 ] El humor en su nueva serie de televisión, decidieron Baynton y Corden, surgiría no tanto de chistes deliberados como de la pura ineptitud realista de los intentos de los héroes por lidiar con un melodrama de alto riesgo que constantemente se les escapaba de las manos. [ 9 ]

Once they began actually writing the series, the two quickly realised this would mean carrying through a much more ambitious project than they had anticipated, eventually leading to a significant amount of effort spent attempting to work out a believably complex, well-paced thriller plot.[12] Producer/director Jim Field Smith described the result as a "movie broken into six parts",[13] and in filming aimed for a likewise ambitious fusion of the realistic and cinematic, insisting that the thriller elements be played entirely straight.[9]

Regarding the apparently awkward title, Corden explained that the extra and ungrammatical "s" was deliberately placed "to let you know it's a comedy show. If it was a drama, it'd be called The Wrong Man."[11]

Despite the first series' apparently self-contained storyline, as of the midpoint of its initial airing, BBC executives had already confirmed that "there is a desire to bring it back and discussions are ongoing".[14] Immediately post-finale, both co-creators and Field Smith confirmed their interest in returning, on Twitter and during media appearances.[15][16] Baynton said in an interview shortly thereafter that they had come up with what they thought was a plausible way to continue the same duo's adventures for a second series.[17] In February 2014, Baynton said that he and Corden had finished plotting the new series and were about to start work on the scripts.[18] In April 2014, BBC Two officially announced that a second series had been commissioned.[19]

Filming began on the new series in August 2014 in and around Bracknell, with Field Smith returning as producer/director. The new plotline was conceived as a direct continuation of the events of the first, using a deliberately hanging plot thread—the bomb seen planted under a car in the final shot—as the starting-point in a storyline that charted the duo's equally outlandish attempts to reclaim their ordinary lives. Describing their efforts in comparison to the original, Corden and Baynton reiterated that "this new series is bigger and bolder... If series one was the frying pan, this is the fire." Other returning cast members include Dawn French, Rebecca Front, Sarah Solemani and Tom Basden, all reprising their roles from the first series.[20] BBC Two scheduled the new series as part of their 2014 Christmas programming line-up, running the episodes in two hour-long blocks successively on 22 and 23 December. The same episodes broken into four half-hours subsequently premiered on Hulu.com on 24 December.[21][22]

Episode list

Series 1 (2013)

Serie 2 (2014)

Recepción

Calificaciones

Overnight figures showed that the first episode was watched by 13.5% of the UK viewing audience at the time, or 3.08 million, making it BBC Two's most successful comedy debut since Extras eight years previously.[24][25][26] Consolidated audience was 4.5 million, or 16%. Series consolidated viewing average was 3.3 million viewers or 12%, while the Sunday 10pm repeat averaged 494,000/2%.[27]

In the US, Hulu initially launched the series by making either the first two episodes available to regular subscribers with one episode subsequently released each week, or all six immediately available to Hulu Plus subscribers. CEO Mike Hopkins confirmed that each episode ranked among the ten most-watched on the online service upon weekly release.[28]

Critical response

Initial UK reviews for the series were generally positive.[29][30][31][32] It was ranked No. 5 in Radio Times' annual critics' Top 40 TV series for 2013[33] and the first episode was an iTunes UK Editor's Choice as the same year's Best TV Episode.[34] On making its Hulu debut, the show received an aggregate score of 80/100 from Metacritic based on seven major reviews, placing it in the top ten highest-rated series of the US fall season.[35]

Praise for the "darkly comic caper", as Keith Watson described it for Metro,[36] centred around both the moody, heavily stylised visual feel of the overall production and the contrasting comic chemistry between its two leads. "The mismatched buddy dynamic between the pair – nerdy, neurotic everyman and chubby gung-ho sidekick – was reminiscent of the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost Britcoms or a Coen Brothers flick," wrote Michael Hogan in The Daily Telegraph.[37] Ellen Jones from The Independent said: "Thanks to slick direction and, one suspects, a large chunk of the BBC's autumn budget, it certainly looks as good as a Hollywood thriller."[38]

Veteran TV writer Clive James of The Daily Telegraph said The Wrong Mans is "highly recognisable, as if it had been designed to fulfill all the requirements of British screen comedy... Remember Morecambe and Wise on the Riviera? This is the same thing, but better done. Having watched one episode, I vowed to watch another: instead of, as I usually do when a British comedy series is concerned, vowing to emigrate back to Australia."[39]

Writing for the entertainment website HitFix, American veteran reviewer Alan Sepinwall noted that "I expected to be tired of the joke behind "The Wrong Mans" within an episode or two. Instead, I found myself engrossed enough in the story of who wanted Sam dead at any particular moment, and why, to keep watching until I made it all the way to the end and could appreciate just how well Baynton, Corden and company stuck the landing."[40]

Several reviewers nevertheless felt the show's attempt to seamlessly mesh the comedy and thriller genres wasn't entirely successful, including Rachel Cooke in the New Statesman, who wrote that "I didn’t hate it... but all the same, I’m not sure that it quite works. Thirty minutes seems too short a time to accommodate both the tropes of a thriller and a tonne of jokes. I think they should have given themselves an hour, the better that the audience might get its ear in".[41] Sam Wollaston in The Guardian wrote that he was "not convinced" by the series' tone, "nor that performers (mainly) necessarily make the best writers. Oh, and what's with that title? There's something wrong with it, isn't there? Grammatically?"[42]

Awards and nominations

Home media

DVD and Blu-ray Disc editions of the first series were released in the UK on 4 November 2013.[51] The second series was released onto DVD in the UK on 26 January 2015.[52]

A boxset containing the first and second series of The Wrong Mans was also released in the UK on 26 January 2015.[53]

References

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  4. ↑White, Peter (2 August 2019). "'The Wrong Mans': Pilot Not Going Forward At Showtime". Deadline. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  5. ↑Carr, Flora (17 April 2018). "BBC comedy The Wrong Mans with James Corden set for US remake". Radio Times. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  6. ↑"Casting News: U.S. Version of James Corden's 'The Wrong Mans' is Switching Things Up". BBC America. 19 July 2018. Archived from the original on 21 July 2018.
  7. ↑"François Damiens et Vincent Dedienne dans la prochaine création française de Disney+". AlloCiné (in French). 11 October 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2025.
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  9. 123"We ditched funny scenes because they felt too much like jokes". Chortle. chortle.co.uk. 4 September 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
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  12. 12Seale, Jack (7 June 2013). "Mathew Baynton on The Wrong Mans, Horrible Histories and Yonderland". Radio Times. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
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