Look Around You: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Look around you. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is? The first series of this British comedy show, filmed in 2002, was a send-up of the earnest programmes for schools made in the 1960s and 1970s. The second series (2005) is a friendlier spoof of the BBC's own slightly wacky 'Tomorrow's World' programme (1965-2002), and it gives a view from somewhere around 1982 of what life might be like in the early 21st century. The new series is again written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz and consists of six thirty-minute shows, a big improvement on the ten-minute format of the first series. The new episodes are all wonderfully daft... Remember to have your jotter and your copy book handy!

Series details

• Title: Look Around You
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy
• Premiere date: 2002-10-10
• Final broadcast date listed: 2005-03-07
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 19 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.4/10
• TVMaze ID: 1950

Cast and credited roles

• Peter Serafinowicz — Peter Serafinowicz
• Robert Popper — Robert Popper
• Nigel Lambert — Nigel Lambert

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2002-10-10; final listed air date 2002-12-11; episode order: 8.
• Season 2: premiered 2005-01-31; final listed air date 2005-03-07; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Look Around You on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.