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What happens when a Bulgarian chef, a Ghanaian martial artist, a dyslexic Afghan refugee and a private school politics geek are thrown together in a Life in the UK classroom? You get a lot more than a British citizenship test.
🧳 Welcome to Britain is a modular short-form comedy drama - told in 6x5 minute episodes - exploring what it really means to belong in modern Britain. Think Mind Your Language meets The Office meets This Is England.
Except with more kettles.
Immigration is a political powder keg. So naturally, we made a comedy about it.
Based on an idea by Rahil Ghazni - a real-life Life in the UK tutor - with script support from Sarah Daoud, this series is based on stories from people who’ve lived the experience.
We filmed the pilot episode, transformed a Nottingham community centre into a dodgy test centre, and embraced chaos when a Sikh parade unexpectedly arrived mid-take (yes, it made the cut).
The characters range from a rapper with rage issues to an Oxford grad with a political agenda. But at its heart, this is a story about community – a wide array of people thrown together and finding their way.
A fictional UK city. A real exam. A class of six students from wildly different backgrounds, united by one thing: the need to pass a bizarre and bureaucratic test to ‘become British’.
There’s:
🧕 Nadia, stuck with a toxic husband and big dreams
🛐 Tariq, quietly battling illiteracy
🇵🇱 Radomira, the best cook in the class but tired of sexist job interviews
🇳🇬 Thanksgod, a taxi driver with big punchlines and bigger ambitions
🎓 Ali, the posh teacher who slowly realises he’s got more in common with his students than he thought
🎤 Wasey, the husband-from-hell with a side hustle in sabotage
And they’ve all got… issues.
The pilot starts with a classic British classroom. It ends in a standoff. A literal one. With a knife, a flag, and an unfortunate kettle.
💥 Creative development – with research based on years of lived experience
🎬 Casting from community groups and our talent network (some passed the real test in real life)
🏫 Location sourcing and transformation (plus unplanned parade management!)
📷 Shooting on cinema-grade kit with a small, nimble crew
🎞️ Post-production, sound, and editing - designed for future modular distribution
🇬🇧 A tone which balances warmth, wit and a proper British sprinkle of cynicism
We’ve got a pilot. We’ve got a treatment. We’ve got a series mapped out across six episodes - each focused on a different character, with new chaos introduced and old stories revisited.
Welcome to Britain is ready to take the next step - whether that’s funding for the full series or partnering with a platform that wants something punchy, diverse and undeniably current.
