Jack Whitehall has confirmed that the movie version of his hit BBC3 sitcom Bad Education is going itno production. At lunchtime today Whitehall tweeted "Very excited to announce that we are making a Bad Education Movie. @Alfie_Wickers and the gang are hitting Cornwall!".

The announcement was accompanied by the picture here showing the original cast sunning themselves in wintry Cornwall, where the film is going to be set.

The inevitable comparison will be with The Inbetweeners, which also featured a young cast and successfully transferred from the small screen to the big screen. But if Bad Education, made by production company Tiger Aspect, can repeat the critical and ratings success it had on BBC3, where it was one of the channel's flagship comedies, there is no reason why it cannot make the transition.

The one thing it may have to watch out for is that people don't confuse it with the 2004 Pedro Almodovar film also called Bad Education...