Crims

This article is about the British TV show. For other uses, see crim (disambiguation).

Crims is a British television sitcom created by Dan Swimer and Adam Kay. It centres on two men sent to a young offenders' institution after one of them involves the unaware other in a bank robbery. It was screened in early 2015 on BBC Three. In May 2015, the BBC confirmed the show would not be renewed.^[1]

Crims
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Dan Swimer Adam Kay
Theme music composer	The Correspondents
Opening theme	Fear & Delight
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC Three
Release	8 January (2015-01-08) – 12 February 2015 (2015-02-12)

Cast and characters

• Elis James as Luke
• Kadiff Kirwan as Jason
• Lashana Lynch as Gemma, Jason's sister and Luke's girlfriend
• Cariad Lloyd as Dawn, an officer at the institution
• Ricky Champ as Creg, an officer at the institution
• Theo Barklem-Biggs as Marcel, a fellow young offender
• Tracy-Ann Oberman as Governor Riley

Cultural references

On the radio show and podcast Elis James hosts with comedian John Robins, James' starring role in Crims became a running gag, with Robins heavily implying that Crims was of poor quality, and pretending to believe that it was called 'Crimes', while mocking the fact that James, despite portraying a teenager, was 34 at the time of Crims' broadcast.