the goes wrong show

The Goes Wrong Show is a British comedy television series created by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, featuring the fictional Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society as they perform live plays that comically go wrong due to mistakes, accidents, and stage mishaps. The show aired on BBC One from December 2019 to November 2021, with two series totaling 12 episodes, and is known for its slapstick humor and theatrical disasters. The company performing in the show is the Mischief Theatre company, which creates the show as if it were a live televised play full of comedic errors. The premise revolves around the amateur drama society putting on various plays that are beset with problems such as malfunctioning props, forgotten lines, and accidents, making each episode a humorous spectacle of things going wrong on stage. The show has a recurring cast playing the troupe members and combines both scripted and physical comedy. The series was well received, with an IMDb rating of 8.6/10 and praised for its family entertainment value. The show originated from successful specials of similar theme, such as "Peter Pan Goes Wrong" and "A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong," leading to the commissioning of this series.