Chickens (2013)

Directed by

Ben Palmer

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three young men stay behind in their English village during World War One while everyone else enlists. They face ridicule and awkward situations as social outcasts.

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What happens

Chickens is a British sitcom that was first broadcast on Channel 4 as a television pilot on 2 September 2011, as part of the channel's Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. It was then followed by a six-episode series that was commissioned on Sky 1 and broadcast between 22 August and 26 September 2013. The show is about three men who do not go off to fight in the First World War and consequently become social outcasts in their village. It was nominated for Best Comedy Programme at the 2014 Broadcast Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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