This is Jinsy
| This is Jinsy | |
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| Genre | Surreal comedy, Sitcom |
| Created by | Chris Bran Justin Chubb |
| Written by | Chris Bran Justin Chubb |
| Directed by | Matt Lipsey |
| Starring | Chris Bran Justin Chubb Alice Lowe Janine Duvitski Geoff McGivern Harry Hill Jennifer Saunders |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 17 (+ 1 pilot) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Lucy Lumsden |
| Producer(s) | Chris Carey James Dean |
| Editor(s) | Charlie Philips |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | The Welded Tandem Picture Company |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC Three (pilot) Sky Atlantic (series) |
| Original release | 1 March 2010 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
This is Jinsy is a British comedy series. The pilot was first broadcast on 1 March 2010 on BBC Three. The programme is about the bizarre residents of the fictional island of Jinsy and based on the island of Guernsey, where the two writers are from. The show was written by Chris Bran and Justin Chubb who also play the leading roles. Although the pilot episode was made for the BBC, the full series of eight episodes was picked up by Sky Atlantic. The first series began airing with a double bill on 19 September 2011 and ended on 31 October 2011. A second series was commissioned and was first broadcast at 22:00 on Wednesday 8 January 2014.
The pilot of This is Jinsy was produced by the Welded Tandem Picture Company and filmed at Greenford Studios in July 2009. It was directed by Chris Bran and Justin Chubb; script editor was Emma Kennedy.
Production for the first series started at the end of January 2011 and it is directed by Matt Lipsey. Charlie Phillips, who worked with Lipsey on Psychoville is the editor.
The Radio Times described the pilot as "infectiously funny as an overstuffed owl. A full series please."Time Out described it as "a lo-fi joy to behold" and the Daily Mail wrote "Has the wit to become a less malevolent League of Gentlemen".
Alice-Azania Jarvis, reviewing the first two episodes for The Independent, calls it "brilliantly done" and "genuinely surreal". Keith Watson writes in The Metro, Bran and Chubb "teetered on the brink of drowning in the ocean of whimsy", but that "This is Jinsy pulled off the trick of turning its multifarious influences into something that felt fresh and new."
The pilot of This is Jinsy was nominated in the Sitcom category for the Rose d'Or 2010.
Series 1 of This is Jinsy was nominated in the Best Sketch Show category for the British Comedy Awards 2011.
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