It’s D-Day for Sid and Crawford’s scam to defraud millions from Sid’s employer, Hartmann Payne, as BBC Three’s sexy, witty and offbeat drama about four fabulous personal assistants in the City continues. However, Sid’s new-found friendship with Midge, Lucy and Nicole casts serious doubt over whether she can see it through.

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I’m not entirely sure what this show is trying to be; there are obvious SATC principles as well as the type of intrigues and bizarre mental projections often seen in Ally McBeal, but despite being marginally amusing very occasionally, it’s overall effect was a confusion of ludicrous premises and clichés.

The show follows the lives of City PAs Midge, Lucy, Grace – who mysteriously disappeared early on – and Nicole. All the women fell easily into stereotypes; Lucy the blonde-but-clever-despite-it woman, Grace the woman who could easily have actually been royalty judging by her voice and demeanour, so that’s the upper-class bird taken care of, Midge, a Scouser who’s easily bedded and full of malapropisms and finally Nicole, who’s all fur coat and no knickers, literally… Read more & comment »

Set against an emotional backdrop of friendship, ambition, sex and filing, Personal Affairs is an offbeat new drama series for BBC Three following the fortunes of four fabulous personal assistants in the City.

It’s 8.30am on Monday morning and all is quiet – for the time being, at least. But an extraordinary event is about to unfold, leaving the girls questioning what happened, who is responsible and what dark secrets lurk beneath the bright lights of the City.

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“We were PAs in the same office – that’s how we met… it was simple and fun and boring but that’s real life isn’t it? And then something terrible happened… things can never be the same again.”

Set against an emotional backdrop of friendship, ambition, sex and filing, Personal Affairs is a fun new offbeat drama for BBC Three following the fortunes of four fabulous personal assistants in the City.

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