| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Starring: | Simon Munnery Kevin Eldon Richard Thomas Lore Lixenberg Johnny Vegas Catherine Tate Roger Mann Janet Munnery Bridget Nicholls |
| Executive Producer: | Myfanwy Moore |
| Producer: | Richard Webb |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Num Episodes: | 6 |
Attention Scum was a 2001 television comedy series created by Simon Munnery and Stewart Lee. It starred Munnery as his "League Against Tedium" character and contained acerbic stand-up routines atop a transit van and sketches including mainstays such as "24 Hour News" (performed by Johnny Vegas), operatic intermissions by Kombat Opera, and two characters engaged in a duel over their hats.
Originally shown on BBC 2 at 11:50pm on Sundays from February to April 2001, the programme was not repeated on the BBC and only played on the now-defunct channel UK Play. In March 2001, it was nominated for a Golden Rose of Montreux although the BBC had already declined to fund a second series.[1]
As of July 2017, there has not been an official DVD release.
The origin of the series lies in a 1994 cabaret act, Cluub Zarathustra, co-founded by Munnery and Lee, and performed at the Edinburgh Festival. Cluub Zarathustra was nominated for a Perrier Award in 1999. A never transmitted (or commissioned) TV pilot of Cluub Zarathustra for Channel 4 was filmed in 1996.