Hugo Chegwin
| People Just Do Nothing | |
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| Also known as | PJDN Kurupt FM |
| Genre |
Sitcom Mockumentary |
| Created by | Allan Mustafa Steve Stamp Hugo Chegwin Asim Chaudhry |
| Written by | Allan Mustafa Steve Stamp |
| Directed by | Jack Clough |
| Starring | Allan Mustafa Hugo Chegwin Asim Chaudhry Steve Stamp |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 16 (including 1 pilot) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Ash Atalla |
| Producer(s) | Jon Petrie |
| Location(s) | Brentford, London, UK |
| Running time | approx. 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Roughcut TV |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC iPlayer, BBC Three (TV), BBC Two |
| Original release | 17 August 2012 – present |
| External links | |
| BBC website | www |
People Just Do Nothing is a British television sitcom that was first broadcast by BBC Three on 20 July 2014. Created, written and performed by Allan Mustafa, Steve Stamp, Asim Chaudhry and Hugo Chegwin, the programme follows the lives of MC Grindah (Mustafa) and DJ Beats (Chegwin), who run Kurupt FM, a pirate radio station broadcasting UK garage and drum and bass from Brentford in west London.
The show follows a mockumentary format, and was the first BBC Three programme to premiere on its iPlayer service. In 2017, it won the BAFTA award and Royal Television Society award for Best Scripted Comedy. The characters have also formed a musical act that tours the UK as "Kurupt FM".
People Just do Nothing is a mockumentary, in which the characters give interviews to the camera and are taped in a loose, documentary fashion. The "documentary" follows the fortunes of "Kurupt FM", a pirate radio station broadcasting UK Garage from a flat in Brentford, west London. The main characters are MC Grindah, MC Beats, DJ Steves, and their entrepreneurial manager, Chabuddy G. The show follows their personal lives, with Grindah's girlfriend Miche serving as another key character.
All of the characters have an inflated sense of their own talent and success; Steve Stamp, who portrays Steves, said "A lot of talented people don’t have enough confidence, but then there’s a lot of stupid people with no talent who have loads of confidence ... All our characters are super confident; they’re just not good at what they do." The characters fail to recognise their lowly status, with Grindah regularly making comments like "We're going global, but you will very much have to be in the Brentford area to hear us." The show plays off of their stupidity; Rachel Aroesti of The Guardian has said, "Every character is really, quite comfortingly, dense, and their inability to read scenarios correctly is the source of nearly all the comedy." The show was summarised by Jamie Clifton of Vice as:
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