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Jack Whitehall Comedy Bad Education To Be Made Into A Movie

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The Jack Whitehall-fronted comedy series ‘Bad Education’ is to be made into a movie.

US movie business site Deadline reports that distributor Entertainment is in early talks to transfer the BBC3 show to the big screen.

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Though there’s no official word, it’s thought that Whitehall will be reprising his role as the cringe-worthy teacher Alfie Wickers.

The series, which follows the hapless Alfie, dubbed ‘the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system’, has proved a hit for BBC3.

When its debut show aired, it was the highest-rated first episode of a comedy in the channel’s history, a record now held by ‘Cuckoo’ – which is now set for a remake in the US.

Whitehall, who also writes the show, had taken it to the US with a view to it being picked up for a pilot.

But it failed to snare a network deal, Whitehall saying at the time that they ‘dodged a bullet’.

“Our show didn’t get picked up, but the one that did – Selfie with Karen Gillan - got cancelled after about eight episodes,” he told Digital Spy.

“That would have been our show. I would have been out there and not have done anything that I’ve done for the last six months because I’d have been contracted for five years to the show.

“So with hindsight, I think I dodged a bullet.”

It’s hoped that Tiger Aspect, the company that makes ‘Bad Education’, can replicate the success of series like ‘The Inbetweeners’, which proved a hit when it made the journey to cinemas.

Image credit: BBC

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