Is it just me or is Greg Davies – who plays Greg in this show and Mr Gilbert in the Inbetweeners – actually Rik Mayall’s twin or some kind of cloning doppelganger? He looks like Rik, talks like Rik, has the comedic slapstick thing and gurning going on like Rik… seriously, the man IS Rik Mayall! It’s positively spooky!

I realise this may be old news to people familiar with Greg, but as I never watch Inbetweeners, and have never seen him in anything else, it’s the first time I’ve encountered him and his resemblance to Rik.

Anyway, I’ll stop obsessing about that now and move on to a review of We Are Klang. Here’s what the BBC says of this new show; “Extremely clever at being stupid, if.comeddie award-nominees We Are Klang bring their unique brand of comedic high-jinks to television.

“Filmed in front of a live studio audience, their new show is the offspring of traditional sitcom and cutting-edge live comedy.”

Erm, I’d have to disagree a tad there. Are there funny scenes? Yes. Are there funny one liners? Yes. But somehow, despite having the right ingredients, the comedic cake that cooked in front of said live audience turned out rather flat… it just didn’t work. Read more & comment »

This film followed teenagers Chantelle and Lydia who both, at the start of the film, were convinced they wanted a baby.

Chantelle was 16 while Lydia was just 14 and the differences between them – despite the obvious common ground of wanting a child – were immense. Chantelle had had an abortion when she was 14 and it became evident early on that her unresolved grief over losing that child made her want to replace it with another.

Lydia however came across as wanting a toy; a living doll who, the way of many rabbits and guinea pigs belonging to teenagers, would lose the novelty value rapidly. It was also evident that Lydia’s a spoilt brat. Being an only child whose mother was nearing her forties when she had her, she’s clearly been indulged at every turn, and it hasn’t turned her into a nice person. Read more & comment »

BBC3 offered up several televised boozing sessions as presenter Cherry Chadwyck-Healey – nope, I’ve never heard of her either, but I liked her a lot! – went on the pi** with women across the country in an attempt to find out what us ladies like to drink, why we drink and how our drinking patterns and preferences alter as we age.

To this end, Cherry spent time on the lash with groups of females who fell into her categories of “the seven ages of drinking.” They were under age drinkers, students, single twenty-ish year olds, professional thirty-ish year olds as well as mothers including middle-aged divorcees and finally grandmas… Read more & comment »

Being Human is a new BBC3 ‘comedy’ about three twenty-something housemates – Annie, Mitchell and George – who are trying to live normal lives, despite the fact that Annie’s a ghost, Mitchell’s a vampire and George is a werewolf. Just your average suburban existences really…

And it should have been at least amusing, if only because it’s so ludicrous a concept, but it wasn’t. It was just stupid. The entire premise was stupid and we were thrown into the deep end of just accepting that these ‘beings’ were, and not only were, they’d found each other and now shared a flat.

Righteo… that’s likely… Read more & comment »