burrell-37105 Who on earth commissioned this? Who passed the script? Where are the laughs? Where are the characters we can relate to?This series is so lame it is embarrassing. How anyone can think this is comedy is beyond me. Jason Watkins is such a good actor yet is reduced to situations like climbing through a window in a shed for no other reason than "it is what I used to do as a child". I watched every episode because this is one of those things where it is so bad you just have to watch. But not once in all the six episodes did it even raise a smile. Loads of occasions where I thought how bad can it get.Knowing the BBC they will commission another series despite universal bad reviews.

elocydna I am old enough to remember when John Cleese was occasionally funny. Then there was "Monty Python's" where he went downhill a level.I'm pleased to see he is now reduced to a soap.I'm old enough to remember "Terry and June". A sitcom so lacking in humour that the laughter was confined to audiences in Surrey. Hence the birth of the category "Surrey Soap" in our house.I think other IMDB users would appreciate this category. Few people would think of searching in "Comedy" for this dross.

kate-94653 Bad is actually too generous. The script is utterly appalling and it is just a wonder how it got past the cutting room? Over acting and Steadman shrieking every line, it was so painful. And sad.

audidude Jason Watkins as a comic character? Has previously played a murderer twice in previous TV dramas. Who thought he had any comic talent?