Badman (web series)
Badman is a British comedy drama web series that premiered on YouTube in October 2015. It has since had 11 episodes, Ten with the first series, and as of 30 November 2019 season 2 with 1 episode so farThe series is created by Humza Arshad and consists of continuous episodes uploaded on his YouTube channel Humza Productions, following the next chapter in the Diary of a Badman world. Humza is now maturing from boy to man, and this is a much darker and more serious saga with implications along the way.[1]
| Badman | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Humza Arshad |
| Based on | Diary of a Bad Man |
| Written by | Humza Arshad |
| Directed by | Mazzi Cuzzi |
| Starring | Humza Arshad Char Avell DJ Limelight |
| Narrated by | Humza Arshad |
| Opening theme | "Badman Theme" |
| Composer(s) | Lyan Roze, DJ Limelight, DDark |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Humza Arshad |
| Production location(s) | South London, United Kingdom |
| Editor(s) | Humza Arshad |
| Running time | 30–60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Humza Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | YouTube |
| Picture format | 16:9 720p (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 19 October 2015 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | DOABM Shorts Badman's Britain Bubblegum Black and Brown Badman Blogs Badman's World "Diary of a Bad Man" |
Development
The original music is provided by DJ Limelight, Lyan Roze and DDark.
Characters
- Humza Arshad as Humza (Badman): The main character of the series and also narrates the story in each episode
- Sayfuz Ali as Avell: Humza's friend from prison who betrays him by stabbing him then he later joins him
to get his revenge on TJ
- Mohammed Umar Baig as Umar: Humza's best friend, often ridiculed by Humza and the group for being overweight
- Fayaaz Kassam: Fayaaz, Humza's friend
- Humza Arshad also as Mr Arshad (Mr Bubblegum): Humza's father, who owns a shop called Bubblegum
- Noor: Humza's sister who was later shot in the end of series 1 which
leaves humza and his family in shock
- Anusha Sareen: Anisa, Humza's friend from school and yasmins friend
- Zak Snoke: TJ, Humza's Enemy main antagonist of the series ruins humzas life
by killing his girlfriend Yasmin and by stabbing humzas cousin and runs over humzas dad and is arrested.
- Theo Johnson: Ace, Smokey's right-hand man TJ cousin who betrays
smokey and promises TJ that he will bring him humza and later realises his mistakes and later helps humza find his sisters killers.
- Voltaire Taiwo-de-Campos: V, A businessman and Smokey's rival TJ and
ace boss is greedy and owns every traphouse later gets killed by ace on TJ command
- David Whitely: Rebeka, Ace's informant and snitch from Birmingham
- Nobuse Junior: Tyrone, TJ's closest friend already knows about yasmins
death TJ stabs him and is presumed dead
- Sammy T: Sammy, A friend of Humza who is dumb and foils
nearly every plan
- Jay Ahmed: Jay, Humzah's cousin yasmins boss works in a office
gets beaten ,blackmailed and threatened by TJ not to disclose his mouth into telling the police about TJ abused Yasmin dosent appear after season 1
- Jazzie Zonzolo: Jazzie, Humza's friend (cameo appearance)
- DJ Limelight: Smokey, A notorious Drug Dealer and Avell and Humza's boss after his traphouse gets
robbed he wants revenge on Avell who was behind the robbing he loses everything when hes captured by v and ace
- adil malik:prince v's right-hand man
References
- Humza Productions (19 October 2015). "BADMAN" – via YouTube.