Filming has commenced on It Gets Worse, a new comedy series written, created by and starring Leo Reich, produced by A24 for Channel 4, and co-commissioned by Bell Media’s Crave for Canada. Joining the ensemble cast will be Emily Fairn (House of Guinness, The Responder), Olive Gray (Save Me, Halo), Sean Delaney (Killing Eve, Life After Life), Dane Williams (What It Feels Like for A Girl, House of David), India Mullen (Normal People, Brassic), and Edinburgh Comedy Award 2025 nominee, writer, actor and comedian John Tothill.
Also joining the cast are Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery), Arian Nik (Daddy Issues, Film Club), Lena Dunham (Good Sex, Too Much), Safia Oakley-Green (The Bluff, Out of Darkness), Blake Harrison (Bookish, I Hate Suzie), Nicole Sadie Sawyerr (Casualty, Twenty Twenty Six), Phil Zimmerman (Silent Witness, Dumbo), Billy Rilot (Robin Hood, The Undeclared War), Kirsty Bloom (Sex Education, Supacell), musician and performance artist Babymorocco Clayton Pettet, Luca Kamleh-Chapman (Words of War, The Gathering), Vicki Pepperdine (Poor Things, The Windsors), writer, producer and host Amelia Dimoldenberg and introducing Emmeline Downie.
It Gets Worse follows Ethan, Abi, and Sam. Best friends from uni, soulmates for life, and dysfunctional roommates. It’s been a year since they finally managed to move to London, they have collectively accomplished nothing, and now their landlord is selling up. They’re getting kicked out. What now? Can they keep their friendships alive when they are dispersed across a city that seems to want them dead? Can they find a six out of ten or higher to have bad sex with? Can they get their shit together when the world is so obviously falling apart? Probably not. But they’re going to have fun trying.
This is a show about three young people who are starting to look around themselves — at their humiliating jobs, their non-existent love lives and their rapidly dwindling will to live — and think: wait. Wait wait WAIT. Surely it gets better than this? It has to get better than this. Right? Spoiler alert! It doesn’t.
It Gets Worse was commissioned for Channel 4 by Charlie Perkins, Head of Comedy and will be produced by A24. Sam Pinnell (Trying, Motherland, Derry Girls) is the producer and the series is directed by Mounia Akl (House of Guinness, The Responder, Boiling Point). Emmy winner Matthew Lewis (Adolescence) is the Director of Photography.
It Gets Worse will air on Channel 4 next year.
In Canada, It Gets Worse will stream exclusively on Crave as a Crave Original.
Pictured L-R: Emily Fairn as Abi, Olive Gray as Sam, Leo Reich as Ethan.
