Exclusive: Scripted
comedy PRU will ‘look past the stereotypes of kids who can’t behave’
They’re the last option for many vulnerable and struggling pupils – but is there also potential for laughs in the world of pupil referral units? The
BBC are set to produce a scripted comedy based around one such facility, partnering with a production company which specialises in helping young people enter the TV and film industry.
The pilot, titled PRU, is a collaboration between the corporation’s online-only channel BBC Three, targeted at 16- to 34-year-olds, and the youth-led production company Fully Focused. Aiming to “authentically capture the unpredictable nature of PRU life, a world seldom seen by the public”, it will follow four “complex but seemingly self-destructive kids who say the unsayable and do the undoable”.