The Midnight Beast - Promo First Look

1 June 2012

 

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Watch out for a musical metamorphosis on a screen near you this summer when YouTube sensation The Midnight Beast bring their hilarious brand of performing wizardry to TV for the first time.

Meet the men who make up the beast: best mates since school, Londoners Stefan Abingdon, Dru Wakely and Ashley Horne form a trio of comedy upstarts who fuse boy band parody with the madness of their own real-life experiences; off the wall, in your face and mostly in their flat.

As well as slipping into wild music videos, the six-part series charts the band's failures and successes as they try to claw and hobble through a sea of bizarre obstacles and unsavoury characters toward pop stardom.Their day-to-day challenges include sharing a dingy East London flat, trying to impress girls when they have no cash and working out who has to sleep on the kitchen floor. They are joined in their travails by a host of comedic guest stars including regulars Simon Farnaby as Sloman, their perverse neighbour; Ryan Pope as their iniquitous manager Chevy; and Sophie Wu as Zoe, Stef's long-suffering girlfriend.

The Midnight Beast's parody of world-wide hit Tik Tok detonated online in December 2009. Since then they've achieved a staggering 47 million views on YouTube as well as two sold-out tours - and all as an unsigned band.

Strangers to convention, TMB are releasing their debut album on their own label, written and produced in its entirety in Stef's parents' house.

The Midnight Beast is written by Jason Hazeley (That Mitchell and Webb Look), Joel Morris (10 o'Clock Live) debut writer Tom Edge, and Mark Grimmer, directed by Ben Gregor (The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret) and overseen by producer Mary Burke (Submarine, Bunny and the Bull).

A Warp Films (Four Lions, Submarine) and Cuba Pictures (Broken, Boy A) production for E4.