Ben Heathcote

As the assisted-suicide sitcom faces its final curtain, Warren Clarke puts in a guest turn as world-weary has-been actor Nigel Banks, now crooning at the posh country hotel where Scott (Blake Harrison) drags his mates to help him get over being dumped.

Joey (Ben Heathcote) wants to help put Banks out of his misery with the McFlurry of Death but gets into a heated debate with Scott over the difference between mercy and murder. As sitcoms go it's, well, different.

An opening scene in which a young woman panics about her dog shitting itself might lead you to some understandable conclusions. Namely, that Way to Go can join Coming of Age, Grown Ups and the rest on the giant trash heap of dreadful BBC Three sitcoms. But Bob Kushell's new series is a little more ambitious than that, probing and prodding for laughs - at a genuine taboo - with moderate success. Half-brothers Scott (Blake Harrison of Inbetweeners fame) and Joey (Ben Heathcote) recruit their oafish chum Cozzo (Marc 'Shirley Ghostman' Wootton) to build an assisted suicide machine when it becomes apparent that bumping off people who want it could be a lucrative business. Given the pitfalls, it's surprisingly ungratuitous, and both writing and performances are reasonably accomplished at this early stage. It remains on the watchlist, but we won't be sending this one to Dignitas just yet.

US writer Bob Kushell has devised something absurd and very funny in this new black comedy about three men trying to set up an assisted suicide business. Circumstances force brothers Scott (Blake Harrison) and Joey (Ben Heathcote) and their friend Cozzo (Marc Wootton) into considering the drastic move: Scott has been asked by a terminally ill neighbour to help him kill himself on the promise of a pair of George Best's football boots, Joey has gambling debts and Cozzo's girlfriend is pregnant. Oh, and his experience of mending deep-fat fryers in takeaways means he has the know-how to build a suicide machine.