Cleo Demetriou, Sophia Dall’aglio and Ameerah Falzon-Ojo star as Lily, Martha and Jas, 13-year-old grammar-school pupils whose brilliance in class is matched only by their ineptitude in corridors, canteens and anything involving boys. Each 28-minute episode lands in the gap between a maths test and a meltdown over who sits where at lunch, with chess-club captain Jamie Flatters and theatrical oddball Archie Lyndhurst providing the male confusion.
Created by Julie Bower, the show ran for six series (114 episodes) from May 2015 to October 2020, quietly becoming CBBC’s longest-running live-action comedy. After Lyndhurst’s death in 2020, the franchise regrouped: spin-off Still So Awkward (2021) kept Lily onscreen while introducing a fresh Year-7 cohort, a 2023 kids-camp special shipped her off as a trainee counsellor, and So Awkward Academy (2024-25) promoted her to rookie teacher at the renamed Cranmede Academy, proving the brand can survive puberty even if its characters barely managed to.
Production Details
CBBC / 6 Seasons / 77 Episodes / 2015 - Present
Created by: Julie Bower Mark Oswin Bede Blake Matt Brito Anthony McMurray
Writer(s): Mark Oswin, Lucy Guy, Adam G. Goodwin
Producer(s): Jim Reid, Alan Marke
Main Cast
Cleo Demetriou as Lily Hampton
Sophia Dall'aglio as Martha Fitzgerald
Ameerah Falzon-Ojo as Jas Salford
Jamie Flatters as Matt Furnish
Archie Lyndhurst as Ollie Coulton
Alex Carter as Mr. Malone
Charlie Nicholson as Rufus
Susan Earl as Mrs. Griggs
Kay Purcell as Mrs. Rennison
Carla Mendonça as Mrs. Fitzgerald
Clive Rowe as Mr. Salford
Vicky Hall as Mrs. Hampton
