

There are six main characters featured in Angry Boys, all portrayed by Chris Lilley. Lilley also wrote and produced all the songs for the series, including S.mouse's rap songs, and recorded them in his home studio. It was recorded over a number of sessions with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, with Lilley on grand piano for some pieces. Bryony Marks, who had been involved in some of the music from Summer Heights High, had helped Lilley arrange the theme music and produced all the incidental music in it. The theme music to Angry Boys was written and produced by Lilley. Angry Boys premiered on at 9:00 pm on ABC1.
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During an interview with The Age in May 2011, Waters said that they wanted the series to be a "challenge" to make it more "fun" and believes that they have "taken everything to the next level". A preview was also shown during the Comic Relief benefit in the United Kingdom on 18 March 2011. A preview of the series premiered on 16 March 2011, introducing some of the new characters, and the return of identical twins Daniel and Nathan Sims from We Can Be Heroes. The series was edited over a period of 12 months. Angry Boys was filmed over seven months in more than 70 locations across Australia, Los Angeles and Tokyo. More than 3,500 people auditioned for roles, both actors and non-actors from Australia and overseas to find a wide range of looks, attitudes, races and ages for 89 main roles and 1,228 extras. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) also released details about the series, confirming that it would be called Angry Boys, and that it would be co-produced by the ABC and American network HBO. On 2 October 2009, it was revealed that Lilley was searching for several American actors to appear in the series.
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A casting call was held on 30 September 2009 for roles of an African-American female (aged 18–25) to play a model called LaFonda, an African-American male, (aged 50–65) to play a character called Carter, and a male Japanese-American professional skateboarder, (aged 16–20) to play Corey. On 25 August 2009, The Daily Telegraph reported that Lilley had planned to release a follow-up series to Summer Heights High, after years of working on the format. This included the casting director, director of photography, camera operators, art department, costume designer, make-up artist, location scout, 1st assistant director, composer and editor.

Filmed in Melbourne, Los Angeles and Tokyo, Angry Boys premièred on at 9:00 pm on ABC1.Įxecutive producers Chris Lilley and Laura Waters brought together the same team of collaborators from Summer Heights High and We Can Be Heroes to create six characters for the series. The series is a co-production between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and US cable channel HBO, with a pre-sale to BBC Three in the United Kingdom. In Angry Boys, Lilley plays multiple characters: S.mouse, an American rapper Jen, a manipulative Japanese mother Blake Oakfield, a champion surfer Ruth "Gran" Sims, a guard at a juvenile detention facility and her teenage grandsons, South Australian twins Daniel and Nathan Sims.

Angry Boys is an Australian television mockumentary miniseries written by and starring Chris Lilley, continuing the mockumentary style of his previous series.
