| Creator: | Julie Bower |
| Composer: | Samuel Karl Bohn |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Num Series: | 6 (main show), 1 (Still So Awkward), 1 (So Awkward: Kids Camp), 1 (So Awkward Academy) |
| Num Episodes: | 104 |
| Producer: | Sally Martin |
| Runtime: | 28 minutes |
| Company: | Channel X |
| Network: | CBBC |
| Last Aired2: | present |
So Awkward is a sitcom series on CBBC following the lives of a group of friends in secondary school. It stars Cleo Demetriou as Lily Hampton, Ameerah Falzon-Ojo and Emily Burnett (in series 6) as Jas (Jasmine) Salford, Sophia Dall'aglio as Martha Fitzgerald, Archie Lyndhurst as Ollie Coulton, Jamie Flatters as Matt (Matthew) Furnish, Samuel Small as Rob Edwards and Raif Clarke as Sid Bevan . The thirteen-episode first series began on 21 May 2015, and finished on 6 August 2015. Another thirteen-episode series began on 25 August 2016 and ended on 17 November 2016, followed by a thirteen-episode third series, which began on 31 August 2017, and ended on 23 November 2017.
Series 4 was first broadcast in August 2018 and Series 5 began airing September 2019, with Series 6 first shown on 6 August 2020.[1] Episodes are typically available on BBC iPlayer ahead of the scheduled air date.
On 22 September 2020, Lyndhurst died of a brain haemorrhage, aged 19. He was the son of the Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst.[2]
A thirteen-part spin-off series titled Still So Awkward premiered on CBBC and BBC iPlayer on 27 July 2021. This series introduced new characters such as Maxim Ays as Seb (Sebastian) Faulks Smythe, Esmond Cole as Samson Rosling, Indigo Griffiths as Frankie Simpson, Arian Nik as Josh Cooper, Ellie Clayton as Claire Fox, Ali Kahn as Meg Watson and Steve Marsh as Steve Grinstead. The only characters to appear from the main series were Lily Hampton, Jeff Malone and Rufus Walpole.
In 2023, a feature-length special, So Awkward: Kids Camp was broadcast, featuring Lily as a summer camp leader and introducing a new group of children. [3]
This was followed by a 12-episode series titled So Awkward Academy, in which Lily joins the new Cranmede Academy (previously Cranmede Upper School) as a teacher. The show began on the CBBC channel on 15 February 2024. [4]
| Actor | Character | Original Series | Still So Awkward | So Awkward: Kids Camp | So Awkward Academy | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||
| Cleo Demetriou | Lily Hampton | colspan="9" | ||||||||
| Ameerah Falzon-Ojo | Jasmine 'Jas' Salford | colspan="4" | ||||||||
| Emily Burnett | colspan="3" | |||||||||
| Sophia Dall'aglio | Martha Fitzgerald | colspan="1" | ||||||||
| Archie Lyndhurst † | Oliver 'Ollie' Coulton | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Jamie Flatters | Matthew 'Matt' Furnish | colspan="7" | ||||||||
| Susan Earl | Mrs Stephanie Griggs | colspan="6" | ||||||||
| Kay Purcell † | Mrs Rennison | colspan="6" | ||||||||
| Clive Rowe | Mr Keith Salford | colspan="5" | ||||||||
| Carla Mendonça | Mrs Saskia Fitzgerald | colspan="5" | ||||||||
| Vicky Hall | Mrs Fern Hampton | colspan="5" | ||||||||
| Alex Carter | Mr Jeff Malone | colspan="8" | ||||||||
| Charlie Nicholson | Rufus Walpole | colspan="2" | ||||||||
| Flynn Horne | Jason Hampton | colspan="7" | ||||||||
| Lauren Taylor-Griffin | Natasha Jones | colspan="7" | ||||||||
| Bella Band | Jenny | colspan="6" | ||||||||
| Rosie Boore | Cassie | colspan="6" | ||||||||
| Fisher Costello-Rose | Maxwell | colspan="6" | ||||||||
| Manpreet Bambra | Jade | colspan="7" | ||||||||
| Kavern Batchelor | Alfie | colspan="6" | ||||||||
| Samuel Small | Rob Edwards | colspan="4" | ||||||||
| Laura Aikman | Ms Vicky Parfitt | colspan="6" | ||||||||
| Raif Clarke | Sid Bevan | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Martin Trenaman | Ken | colspan="5" | ||||||||
| Nethra Tilakumara | Kat | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Gemma Paige North | Lou | colspan="5" | ||||||||
| Danny Griffin | Hunter Phillips | colspan="4" | ||||||||
| Janice Connolly | Mazel | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Maxim Ays | Sebastian 'Seb' Faulks Smythe | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Esmond Cole | Samson Rosling | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Indigo Griffiths | Frankie Simpson | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Arian Nik | Josh Cooper | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Ellie Clayton | Claire Fox | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Ali Kahn | Meg Watson | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Steve Marsh | Steve Grimstead | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Ella Kenion | Caroline | colspan="2" | ||||||||
| Faisal Dacosta | Dominic Bell | colspan="1" | ||||||||
| James Day | Jin Hathaway | |||||||||
| Audrey Aherne-Conroy | Maddy Thompson | colspan="2" | ||||||||
| Jarlan Bogolubov | Luca Morris | colspan="2" | ||||||||
| Bodhi Rae Breathnach | Tam Molloy | colspan="2" | ||||||||
| Rosie Ekenna | Teyah Wilcox | colspan="2" | ||||||||
| Sean Gordon | Zak Small | colspan="2" | ||||||||
| Billy Hickey | Conan O'Flynn | |||||||||