Inbetweeners cast member James Buckley has called for the show’s continuation to feature the same “silly, disgusting humour” featured in the original series.
In October 2025, creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris confirmed the Channel 4 sitcom, following the adolescent travails of four foul-mouthed teens, would be returning.
However, Buckley, who played the particularly crass Jay Cartwright, is yet to be approached for the project – but he thinks the show should not be watered down for modern audiences, as many fans are concerned it will be.
“I think the temperature at the moment is that people would like an Inbetweeners,” he said. “It would release some sort of pressure. Just make sure we keep all that silly, disgusting humour. That’s what I assume people would want.”
The actor is currently one of the most popular celebrities on personalised video app Cameo, where he is regularly requested to deliver Jay’s lewd catchphrases. He joined the video platform in March 2020 and is reported to have become the app’s first millionaire in September 2022.
Buckley is concerned jokes featured in The Inbetweeners might no longer be accepted due to cancel culture, telling The Sun: “It was cool for a while to take everything very seriously and to take things the wrong way – when you just know they are not intended to be taken that way.”
No major details have been revealed about what the new Inbetweeners could look like. But Beesley and Morris suggested Buckley and his co-stars, Simon Bird, Joe Thomas and Blake Harrison, would be involved in a statement reading: “Incredibly exciting to be plotting more adventures for our four favourite friends (ooh friends).”
After the duo’s production company struck a deal with Banijay in 2025, the latter’s UK chief executive, Patrick Holland, said he was “delighted to pick up the conversation about the future” of The Inbetweeners with Morris and Morris.
“They have an infectious creative vision for the brand which will resonate with audiences old and new, so I can’t wait to get going,” he said. “This is a wonderful moment for fans, there are exciting conversations afoot and more news to follow.”
First broadcast on E4 from 2008 and 2010, The Inbetweeners follows the misadventures of Will McKenzie (Bird), Simon Cooper (Thomas), Neil Sutherland (Harrison), and Buckley’s Jay, a group of socially inept sixth-formers enduring school life, failed romances, and fragile masculinity at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive.
The series, conceived as a more realistic counterpoint to the darker teen drama Skins, went on to become a surprise phenomenon, pulling record audiences and winning a Bafta Audience Award in 2010.
Two films followed: The Inbetweeners Movie in 2011 and The Inbetweeners 2 in 2014, which together grossed over £100m worldwide, setting box-office records for UK comedies.
