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]

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.