{"id":565066,"date":"2026-07-29T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/565066\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:23:08","slug":"laura-marcus-behind-channel-4-comedy-blap-fk-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/565066\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Marcus Behind Channel 4 Comedy Blap ‘F**k Ups’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Laura Marcus<\/a>, star of Netflix\u2019s upcoming Assassin\u2019s Creed adaptation, has landed her first Channel 4<\/a> comedy.<\/p>\n

\n\tMarcus is creating and starring in a Channel 4 Blap titled F**k Ups<\/a>, about a teen, Miracle June Jones, who has dedicated her entire existence to greatness. Soon, however, she is forced to face the horrifying reality that even the most disciplined can mess up. Trapped in her dead-end town for another year, Miracle must endure the one thing she\u2019s spent her life avoiding: her relentlessly enthusiastic neighbor and self-appointed best friend, Lillian Cheeks.<\/p>\n

\n\tMarcus stars opposite Molly Hewitt-Richards (The Virgins), Alexander Arnold (Skins), Sophie Thompson (Detectorists) and Mark Benton (Smoggie Queens), and the Blap is directed by Will Wightman, who recently directed\u00a0SNL UK\u00a0stars Paddy Young and Jack Shep in\u00a0This Place is a Sh*thole. The pilot is partially based on a short film Marcus made during the pandemic with producer Daniel Sved. <\/p>\n

\n\tMarcus\u2019 star is on the rise. She recently landed a series regular role <\/a>in Netflix\u2019s live action adaptation of Assassin\u2019s Creed and has appeared in Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping and Netflix mini-series Death by Lightning. <\/p>\n

\n\tChannel 4 Blaps are a pathway to landing a full series. Recent examples include flatshare comedy Break Clause<\/a> from Jess Bray and Starstruck co-writer Alice Snedden.<\/p>\n

\n\tMarcus described F**ck Ups as an \u201cadrenaline fuelled love letter to being the lamest rats in town.\u201d \u201cTo see it in a shiny new Channel 4 format is a bit of a fever dream,\u201d she added. \u201cWith that said, we could not have asked for a better team of people from casting; crew; our incredibly gifted actors; the insane soundtrack from Lynks; brilliant creative producing from Dan, Leah and Jeremy; and of course, the off the wall direction from Will.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tF**k Ups is produced by Bristol-based Calling the Shots Films<\/a>. The producers are Bafta-nominated Leah Draws (Funboys) and RTS Award-winner Sved (Spare Part).\u00a0Jeremy Routledge is executive producer, with Andy Brereton as commissioning editor.\u00a0Lynks composed the soundtrack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Laura Marcus, star of Netflix\u2019s upcoming Assassin\u2019s Creed adaptation, has landed her first Channel 4 comedy. Marcus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[255952,48673,146,255953,85,46,255954],"class_list":["post-565066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-calling-the-shots-films","tag-channel-4","tag-entertainment","tag-fk-ups","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-laura-marcus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}