Comic writes and stars in It Gets Worse

Leo Reich is to star in his own Channel 4 comedy series.

The comedian has written and created It Gets Worse – and will also star as one og three best friends from uni and dysfunctional roommates now living in London. 

In the year since Ehan, Abi, and Sam moved to the capital they have collectively accomplished nothing,  and look at their humiliating jobs, their non-existent love lives and their rapidly dwindling will to live and start to wonder if things will get better.

The six half-hour episodes are  being made by cutting edge production house A24, the outfit behind Everything Everywhere All At Once, Uncut Gems and Beef.

Reich said: ‘I’m over the moon to be working with the amazing teams at A24 and Channel 4 on It Gets Worse. 

‘This is a show for everyone who is, has been or will be a delusional and irritating 24-year-old — I see you, I love you, I am you. I'm going to try my absolute hardest to do our community justice. I’m so excited!

The show was commissioned by Charlie Perkins, head of comedy at Channel 4, who said: ‘Leo has this ability to distil the swirling complications and idiosyncrasies of his generation into succinct, spiky and incredibly funny writing and magnetic performances. 

‘The "voice of a generation" label many have given him is valid, and as Channel 4 has always been the best place for the brightest new comedy voices, it feels like Leo’s spiritual home.’

Reich's debut show Literally Who Cares?! was nominated for best newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2022, and for most outstanding show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival the following year, and was subsequently made into an HBO Special, also produced by A24. 

The comic has recently been filming Too Much  a Lena Dunham series for Netflix, which will be released later this year.  The cast also includes Megan Stalter, who stars as  New York workaholic in her mid-thirties who moves to London after a relationship breakdown, alongside Will Sharpe, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant, Emily Ratajkowsksi and Rhea Perlman.

No broadcast date or other cast for It Gets Worse has yet been announced. But the series will also stream in Canada, on Bell Media's Crave.

Published: 25 Feb 2025