From the makers of Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women, comes Grouchy Young Men, a brand new one-hour special that gives a younger generation of disgruntled gents the chance to let off some steam. Proving that grumpyness is by no means a state of being confined to just the oldies these twenty to thirty-something men have a catalogue of complaints that make them mad as hell, from today’s unfathomable hunger for fame to the minefield of modern dating.

Narrated by ROBERT WEBB (Peep Show), the programme features contributions from some of the grouchiest social commentators, comedians and celebrities around and features; DAN SNOW (The One Show), MATT WILLIS (ex-Busted, I’m a Celebrity…), RUSSELL KANE (Live at the Apollo), ALUN COCHRANE (8 Out Of 10 Cats), JIM JEFFRIES, JACK P SHEPHERD (Coronation Street’s David Platt), ex Viz editor ALEX COLLIER, SACHA DHAWAN (The History Boys) and CARL DONNELLY.

It’s a tough time for the 21st Century’s tetchy younger men - caught as they are between their increasingly decrepit parents and the snotty-nosed school kids clogging up the bus. But this comedic look at what infuriates the modern grumbler offers respite from the double standards and sheer frustration of it all. Here’s ALEX COLLIER bemoaning his parents’ lack of basic computer skills: “You would get all the usual stuff - Oh, you treat this place like a hotel.’ ‘Oh, you treat us like taxi drivers.’ Now I’ve left home, they treat me like their own personal IT assistant.” While ALUN COCHRANE has had his fill of Facebook would-be friends “We haven’t got enough in common, broadband and insomnia is just not enough. I need more, and furthermore I’ve actually got flesh and blood friends that I’m trying to shake off.” While JACK P. SHEPHERD just wants to be left alone: “I like ignorant people cos they don’t talk to me and I don’t want to be talked at.”

Grouchy Young Men is a Liberty Bell production for Comedy Central. The film is produced and directed by NINUSHKA OLLER-STRACEY, with STUART PREBBLE and DIANNE NELMES the Executive Producers for Liberty Bell and SARAH FARRELL the Executive Producer for Comedy Central.

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Grouchy Young Men will transmit on Comedy Central on 12th April 2009

For more information please contact Jenny Stewart or Dan Lloyd at Avalon on 020 7598 7222 / jenny.stewart@avalonuk.com or danl@avalonuk.com


LIBERTY BELL PRODUCTIONS


Liberty Bell Productions, which was formed in autumn 2002, is based in Newcastle and London, and specialises in the production of television documentaries and features, factual entertainment, current affairs, drama-documentary and youth programming. Recent productions include: Three Men In More Than One Boat (BBc TWO), Michael Portillo: Death of a School Friend (BBC TWO), Cracking Up (BBC TWO), Life and Death on the NHS (ITV1), Portillo on Thatcher: The Lady’s Not For Spurning (BBC FOUR), The Alastair Campbell Diaries (BBC TWO), Three Men In Another Boat (BBC TWO), The Grumpy Guides to… (BBC TWO), Grumpy Old Men (BBC TWO), Grumpy Old Women (BBC TWO), Why We Went to War (More 4), Don't Get Me Started (Five), Real Life: Beating Breast Cancer (ITV1), The Meaning of Life (BBC ONE) and The Widow’s Tale (BBC TWO). Liberty Bell is currently in production with new programmes for BBC TWO, Channel 4, Dave, and SkyArts.

WHAT THE PRESS HAVE SAID ABOUT PREVIOUS LIBERTY BELL PRODUCTIONS:

LIFE AND DEATH ON THE NHS

“A startling, beautiful documentary following the experiences of a clutch of patients in hospital: a simple idea related with colour and subtlety and it was incredibly moving without ever exploiting its subjects…This wasn’t a political documentary and it wasn’t a feather-brained confected set-up. It was sober and tightly edited documentary making. It didn’t patronise you, it simply showed three diverse experiences of patients and the professionalism and skill of those doctors and nurses who helped care for them - and O’Brien directed it with the brevity and sensitivity of whatever the television equivalent of fine short storytelling.”
Tim Teeman, The Times


PORTILLO ON THATCHER: THE LADY'S NOT FOR SPURNING

“Gordon Brown and David Cameron should watch it. Tony Blair should get a hold of a tape and reflect on what might have been. Media bosses who only commission films if they portray politicians as corrupt and mad should take note also… I know people with only a passing interest in politics who were gripped.”
Steve Richards, The Independent


THE ALASTAIR CAMPBELL DIARIES

“Just as DVD extras allow you to see the human fallibility that lies behind the polished exterior of the finished film, Campbell’s diary fills in the engrossing trivia of off-stage politics… it is completely engrossing.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent


THE WIDOW'S TALE

“This complex and moving film is one of the television highlights of the year so far.”
Andrew Male, The Sunday Times


GRUMPY OLD MEN

“The whole programme put me into an uncharacteristically, seethingly good mood… Wonderful stuff”
A.A. Gill, The Sunday Times