HOT on the heels of his huge success of his online series Svengali, Welsh actor Jonathan Owen has scored another cult hit with his new offering - The B Team.
The hilarious spoof of football hooligan gangs had the internet buzzing when the first episode was unveiled on Facebook and YouTube.
"Football hooligan films are rife for parody," explains Jon, who wrote B Team with Rob Brydon's brother, Pete Jones.
The die-hard Cardiff City fan said penning the football culture parody was an interesting experience as Pete is a committed Swansea City supporter.
"It was like hands across the A48," jokes the Merthyr-born actor, well known on our TV screens from his appearances in Channel 4's comedy-drama Shameless. "As you can imagine there was a bit of banter when we were writing together, but it worked well as I think we were trying to outdo each other every day."
The B Team are a gang of inept London football hooligans who misguidedly believe they can compete with the likes of Chelsea and Millwall as top firm.
"Football fans have loved it," he adds. "People like the sense of humour and the fact they're so hopeless."
Jon also reveals there's good news for those fans of his cool music culture comedy series Svenagli - in which he stars as hapless band manager Dixie.
"I've got finance to turn Dixie's story into a film," explains Jon.
"There was so much interest in it, that it was only a matter of time."
Star names such as Martin Freeman, Boy George, Tim Lovejoy, Sally Phillips, Matt Berry and Alan McGee have been queuing up to appear in the series, written by award-winning writer Dean Cavanagh.
The advent of the big screen version of the internet hit will means that fans of Svenagli only have a certain amount of time to watch it online as Jon reveals he'll be deleting the whole series.
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