So Awkward
| So Awkward | |
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 Series 1 titlecard | |
| Genre | Comedy/Drama |
| Created by | Julie Bower |
| Starring |
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Alan Marke & Jim Reid |
| Running time | 30 minute |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBBC |
| Picture format | 16:9 Colour 1080i |
| Original release | 21 May 2015 – present |
| External links | |
| So Awkward - CBBC Online | |
So Awkward is a comedy/drama series on CBBC, first aired 21 May 2015. It stars Cleo Demetriou as Lily Hampton, Ameerah Falzon-Ojo as Jas (Jasmine) Salford, and Sophia Dall'aglio as Martha Fitzgerald and consists of 13 episodes.
Plot
Filmed in Manchester, So Awkward is a TV series with three socially awkward 13 year old girls, Lily Hampton, Jas Salford and Martha Fitzgerald, trying to fit in at school and deal with day-to-day life at school, boys and parental dramas.
Cast
- Cleo Demetriou as Lily Hampton,
- Ameerah Falzon-Ojo as Jas Salford,[1]
- Sophia Dall'aglio as Martha Fitzgerald,
- Jamie Flatters as Matt Furnish, Lily's crush[1]
- Archie Lyndhurst as Ollie Coulton, Martha's nerdy friend,
- Flynn Horne as Jason Hampton, Lily's helpful, yet cool older brother and Jas' crush,
- Susan Earl as Mrs Griggs, the schools quirky headteacher,
- Clive Rowe as Mr Salford, Jas' clumsy loving dad,
- Carla Mendonca as Mrs Fitzgerald, Martha's work-obsessed mother,
- Vicky Hall as Mrs Hampton, Lily's kind, caring and fun mum and Jason Hamptons mum also
- Kay Purcell as the School Nurse/Receptionist.
- Bella Band as Jenny
List of Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date[2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Parentology" | Rebecca Ryworth | Julie Bower | May 21, 2015 |
| Martha feels abandoned by her workaholic mother, so she tries to get into trouble at school to be noticed, with the help of Jas. Unfortunately, this is not as easy as it seems. When her mum realises that Martha is feeling abandoned, she tries to fix it, but Martha realises that she would rather have her workaholic mother the way she was before. Meanwhile, Lily is tired of her mother knitting her embarrassing jumpers and asking her if she has a boyfriend. She gives up and pretends that Ollie is her boyfriend, with disastrous results | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "Friendundancy" | Rebecca Ryworth | Julie Bower | May 21, 2015 |
| Mufti Day is arriving, and Lily doesn't want to wear one of Jas' quirky and weird outfits again. She runs into Natasha Jones, and accidentally suggests they all wear yellow, and ends up trying to change between Jas' and Natasha's outfits. She finally gives up when she forgets that Jas had transferred into her Art class the week before. Lily embraces Jas' zombie idea, and they end up setting a cool trend. Meanwhile Martha turns into a Goth, and Ollie decides that due to his fear of clothes he can't take the girls talking about clothes any more. Ollie gives the girls a 'friendundancy' form to sign. | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "A Minus" | Jordan Hogg | Bede Blake | May 28, 2015 |
| Martha is mortified when she gets an A- on her test, so she revises so much that she begins to faint all over the place. Mrs. Griggs gets worried about her, so she decides to make Matt her 'fun' tutor. At first Martha is annoyed, but she soon learns that she can have fun, and she helps get Matt's grades up. Lily is jealous that Martha is spending so much with Matt, and Ollie is jealous that Martha is always with Matt, so Jas comes up with a plan to put them together. | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Nox Factor" | Jordan Hogg | Julie Bower | June 4, 2015 |
| Martha's mum buys three tickets to a science talk hosted by a famous scientist, Dr. Nox. Lily and Jas both fancy him, so they compete at being a better friend so Martha will take them. In the end, Martha goes to ask Mrs. Griggs who she should pick. After failing to convince Martha to take her, Mrs. Griggs confiscates the tickets, but accidentally leaves them in a book which she later returns to the library. Meanwhile, Ollie wants to prove to everyone else that he is better than Dr. Nox, with Matt's help. | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Mr. Sicky Bear" | Jordan Hogg | Julie Bower | June 11, 2015 |
| Jas really wants to be Juliet in the play in assembly, but catches a cold. She accidentally passes the cold on to Martha and they both have to take a few days off. Martha stays at Jas' house. When she gets there though, she discovers Jas' house is a mess and spends ages cleaning. She also washes a teddy that Jas' dad uses to cheer up Jas when she is sick, which deeply upsets Jas and her dad. Meanwhile, because Jas is sick, Ollie really wants Lily to be Juliet in the play. However, she doesn't want to betray Jas even though Romeo is Matt Furnish, her crush. | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "Love Machine" | Jordan Hogg | Bede Blake | June 18, 2015 |
| Lily is worried that she and Matt might not be compatible, so Jas adapts some plant compatibility software, which tells you how compatible you are with someone, or who your perfect match is from the entire school database. When Lily finds out that she and Matt are 97% compatible, she becomes worried and tries to figure out what the 3 percent is. When Jas enters Mrs. Griggs into the software, she is horrified to find out that the perfect match is her own father! She becomes worried when Mrs. Griggs gives her a letter to give to her dad, and hides it thinking that is was a date offer. However, when Lily has the same envelope, Jas finds out that it was just a request to help out at the school fair. | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "Library vs. Tree" | Rebecca Ryworth | Mark Oswin | June 25, 2015 |
| Martha is campaigning to get a new library built, but when campaigning works, they find out that Jas' favourite tree would have to be cut down. A fierce battle between Martha and Jas and their parents ensues. When it is all over they find that plans for the library have been cancelled, but then find out that the tree will still be cut down for a new sports centre. | |||||
| 8 | 8 | "Space Over" | Rebecca Ryworth | Julie Bower | July 2, 2015 |
| When Lily finds out that Matt is going out with a girl called Greta Masters, she becomes very upset. Jas organises a sleepover to cheer her up, but Martha is upset because a rare comet sighting is on the same night. She attempts to sneak Ollie into the attic of Lily's house so that they can see the comet. | |||||
| 9 | 9 | "Fitzgerald vs Fitzgerald" | Jordan Hogg | Matt Brito | July 9, 2015 |
| When the Careers advisor suggests that Martha cannot become a human rights lawyer and that she should aim lower, she campaigns against her mother to bring back the schools vending machine because Jas cannot focus without the chocolate from it. She is nearly beaten, but proves that her mother didn't sign it. Because Martha's mother used her signature stamp, it wasn't a legal document. | |||||
| 10 | 10 | "Rox my world" | Rebbeca rycroft | Bede Blake | July 16, 2015 |
| The girls have teamed up to enter a National Young Inventors competition. Lily and Martha fall out when Lily leaves the team to join Matt's team, and Martha replaces Lily with super-geek Roxanne Bunce. Roxanne has recently returned from a science exchange programme in France, and during that time she has undergone a major transformation - the super-geek has become super-cool, now calling herself Roxy. Matt Furnish falls head-over-heels for Roxy and comes to Lily for advice on how to impress her. Lily ends up giving the boy she likes lessons in how to chat up another girl. Meanwhile, Lily doesn't realise Jas in turn has been advising Roxy on how to secure Matt as a boyfriend. | |||||
| 11 | 11 | "Good Girls" | |||
| When Lily loses her tie, she is encouraged unwittingly to 'steal' a tie by an older pupil whom she helped earlier. Meanwhile, Martha is called a snitch and says she doesn't snitch. | |||||
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Forecast students to star in new CBBC Sitcom". Forecast Academy. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
- ↑ "The Next Step — Episode Guide". Zap2it. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
External links
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