Big Boys

Big Boys is a British television sitcom created and written by Jack Rooke, first broadcast on Channel 4 and available on All 4 from 26 May 2022. It stars Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing as first-year university students who live together, set in 2013, told from the point of view of Llewellyn's character Jack—a semi-fictionalised version of Rooke, who narrates the series—as he recovers from his father's death and explores his sexuality for the first time. The show was renewed for a second series in August 2022 and began filming in May 2023, it is set for a 2023 broadcast. Cast and characters Main Dylan Llewellyn as Jack, a closeted, shy 19-year-old student on a journalism scholarship, who is grieving over his father's death and unused to the heavy social life of university, having been cooped up at home for the past few years with his mother Jon Pointing as Danny, a 25-year-old mature student, who is keen on nights out and trying to chat up female students, while dealing with mental health issues for which he takes antidepressants Katy Wix as Jules, a former Brent Uni student-turned-student union officer, possessing an overenthusiastic and zealous approach to integrating new students Camille Coduri as Peggy, Jack's mother, who hides her struggles over sending her son away to university, having had him to rely on for the past couple of years. Jack has hidden his sexuality from her, expecting a bad reaction. Izuka Hoyle as Corinne, a studious and serious Oxbridge reject, who is also eager to let her hair down Olisa Odele as Yemi, a gay fashion student who accompanies Jack as he tries to explore his sexuality at university