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The End Of The F***ing World, The TV Series From Channel 4, Based On Charles Forsman's Minicomic

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The original doesn't have the asterisks in it.

But Charles Forsman's 2011 mini-comic, later collected by Fantagraphics was adapted in 2013 as a short film by then-film student Jonathan Entwistle for Film4.

And on the basis of that, it has been commissioned by Channel 4 in Britain to adapt it into a TV series. One that it looks like Netflix has picked up for international distribution as they did the likes of Crazyhead – indeed, it's being adapted by the same production company and Crazyhead and Misfits, Clerkenwell Films. It will be written for Charlie Covell, who wrote the movie Burn, Burn, Burn.

Entwistle came across the comic in Gosh Comics, London,

The comic is a dark coming of age story about two teenagers, one of whom starts to act on their violent fantasies…

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