Break Clause

Yes, please.

This is like this new programme that's coming out, this series called Break Clause, where they sign a flat.

This couple is a bit different, but they sign a flat in London and as they're signing the flat, he basically admits to cheating on her and they have to live together.

Yeah.

Sorry, Scott, what's your, um, Must Watch?

It's called Break Clause.

It's a new sitcom that launched on Channel four late last week.

It's written by Jess Bray.

But from episode two, particularly when Ben, um, who's played by Samuel Bottomley, goes on a medical trial just for the money, um, it is, it is funny, and at times quite absurd, but in a good way.

It is, um, I think comedy, particularly sitcom comedy, is much, much, much rarer on TV, and it's one of those gen-genres of, of TV that I think has to really be protected because we can't have the Gavin & Stacey, um, show that en-ended up becoming a jugg-juggernaut unless you take a bit of a risk on a new show, um, with, um, you know, on a ten PM on a Fri-- on, on a Thursday on Channel four.

So, um, yeah, I, I like Break Clause.

Has it-- I was just reading a, a review of it.

I'm just not sure about it.

On the 1st of October on Channel 4, we have Break Clause.

We've been talking about rom-coms a bit today.

This is a classic love story, proper Jane Austen boy meets girl stuff, except the boy and girl break up the day they move in together and are stuck in a six-month contract.

Well, I- better than decent, a strong performance.

I think he's really, really underrated.

So I am quite curious about Break Clause, and we'll probably will be checking that one out on Channel 4 when it comes.

Yeah, it comes out on the 1st of October.

I would like to keep doing that for sure.

Well, Break Clause is great.

I've really enjoyed it.

And you can see it on Channel 4 from Thursday at 10 o'clock.

Okay, so would you want to tell us all what it's about?

Okay, so Break Claws is about a couple, Ben and Lil, who... move in together they move down from leeds uni and they move in together in their first flat in london and then on night one ben admits that he has cheated on lil and they break up but they have to live out their sort of six month break clause while not together in the same flat That's a lot of words.

You'd think I got quite good at pitching it by now, but I've clearly forgotten how to do that.

So that was my rambly version of what the show's about.

And break laws was the first time I was like, hang on a second, like, what do I really love doing? And what do I want to write about? And it was just this couple in sort of this situation.

And I mean, I often say flirting and fighting are like my two favorite things to write.

So I wrote Break Clause as a spec script then.

And it it got sent out and it got, it got me sort of lots of general meetings and I then, then got into some writers rooms through that and stuff, but really break laws as a script.