Anna Nightingale

In Mouth to Mouth an Essex-girl called Meeshell recounted dumping her best friend and her boyfriend to try to win a version of The X Factor. The level of humour of this illustrated monologue can be judged from the phonetic spelling of her name, by lines such as "I'm not age-a-list, I just don't want to smell piss when I sing" and by the writer Karl Minns' belief that spastic colons and testicular cancer are of themselves funny. His one-liners kept on coming, unfortunately. No sooner was her unbelievable whine over than we heard the story again from Meeshell's cynical ex-boyfriend Tyler in the second part of the double bill. Anna Nightingale as Meeshell and Alex Price as Tyler produced the sorts of trying-too-hard performances normally inflicted only on audition reels. Sadly, it will be a while before Minns is hailed as the next Alan Bennett.

Another comedic swipe at the pop industry, this time following three girls - Anna Nightingale, Pippa Duffy and Ayesha Antoine - as they try to carve a career with their group, Cats Eyes.

Interweaving monologues, songs and drama, it's lightweight but lovable with a witty script from Karl Minns and additional material available online at Bebo.

Anna Nightingale, Ayesha Antoine and Pippa Duffy star as the three members of fictional girl band Cats Eyes, who see stardom beckon as they are accepted onto TV talent show Fame Search. The whole show is presented as a series of intercut monologues from each girl, which is initially fun but feels a bit wearing after half an hour. This show is far better consumed in short bursts, which is handy as each episode will be available as a series of short episodes both on the BBC website and on Bebo.