Fleabag is a British comedy- drama TV series. It won four awards at the Emmys 2019.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about this award winning TV show!
- Fleabag is a British comedy-drama television show
- It was created and written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- She also stars in the title role
- It was originally produced by Two Brothers Pictures for digital channel BBC Three in a co-production agreement with Amazon Studios
- Waller-Bridge plays Fleabag, an angry, confused, sexually voracious young woman living in London
- Sian Clifford and Olivia Colman also star
- Andrew Scott joined the cast in the second series
- The programme is particularly known for the act of breaking the fourth wall
- In which the protagonist talks to the camera
- The show premiered on 21 July 2016
- It concluded its second and final series on 8 April 2019
- Fleabag received widespread critical acclaim and various accolades
- With Waller-Bridge being awarded the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2017
- The second series received eleven Primetime Emmy Award nominations
- It won six
- Including Outstanding Lead Actress for Waller-Bridge and Outstanding Comedy Series
- With additional acting nominations for Clifford, Colman
- And its guest stars Fiona Shaw and Kristin Scott Thomas
- The show is adapted from Waller-Bridge’s 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- An one-woman play of the same name which won the Fringe First Award
- The initial idea of the character of Fleabag came from a challenge by a friend
- There Waller-Bridge was given the task of creating a sketch for a 10-minute section in a stand-up storytelling night
- BBC Three was the original broadcast channel for the show
- With a repeat run broadcast on BBC Two between 21 August and 25 September 2016
- The second series was broadcast on BBC One at the same time as being released on BBC Three
- By this time only available online
- It was picked up by the on-demand Amazon Video service
- And premiered in the United States on 16 September 2016
- Fleabag is also available on IFC in The United States
- The show has been remade for French television by Jeanne Herry
- Titled Mouche (French for ‘fly’, the insect), it started airing on 3 June 2019 on pay channel Canal+
- Mouche is a close remake, though set in Paris with Camille Cottin in the starring role
- Both series of Fleabag received widespread acclaim from television critics
- At review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, both series received approval ratings of 100%
- The first series received an average rating of 8.5/10
- Based on 40 reviews
- With the site’s critical consensus reading: “Clever and viciously funny, Fleabag is a touching, wildly inventive comedy about a complicated young woman navigating the aftermath of trauma”
- The second series received an average rating of 9.29/10
- Based on 78 reviews
- With the critical consensus stating: “Fleabag jumps back into the fray with a bracing second season that upholds its predecessors’ frenzied wit and delicate heart, replete with Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s indefatigable charisma”
- At Metacritic, the first series received a weighted average score of 88 out of 100
- Based on 19 critics
- While the second series received a score of 96
- Based on 19 critics, both signifying “universal acclaim”
- The second series won 6 Emmy Awards
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