Dan Clark

BBC3 hasn't exactly got a great pedigree when it comes to home-grown comedy but this new sitcom, written by up-and-coming star Dan Clark, is worth a look. Following the hapless 20-something who is left a house in his grandmonther's will, it blends farce, gags and nice characterisation with some sublimely silly fantasy sequences.

New sketch comedy series written by and starring Dan Clark. Luck never seems to smile on Don although fantasy sequences show that in his mind life would be very different. In the opener he finds he's been left a house by his recently deceased grandmother but it comes with a mountain of back payments. When he decides to get a lodger, a girl he was in love with as a teenager replies. Rarely more than mildly amusing.

After a pilot last year, BBC Three has commissioned a series of the sitcom created by Dan Clark, who plays Don Danbury, a morally vacant cretin who inherits his Nana's house on the same day he is fired from his job.

The USP for this series are the narrative pauses in which Don offers instructions on what not to do in the given situation. This device creates some absurd situations that generate the odd laugh, but the whole thing is really a bit of a rip-off of Peep Show, but not as good. The character of Don looks like a drug-free Super Hans, with a personality modelled on Jeremy. But where Peep Show succeeded by making you love flawed characters doing horrible things, Don Danbury is just a git.

Dan Clark - who writes and stars in this new sitcom - isn't one of those comedians you instantly warm to. He comes across as a bit of a prat to be honest.

And if he offered to buy you a drink down the pub you'd probably mumble some excuse about having to rush home because you've left the iron on.

Even so, after a weak opening, things look up a bit after his equally charmless character Donald loses his job, inherits his nan's big house and advertises for a sexy lodger.

Awash with fantasy sequences - a favourite gimmick of comedy writers - the ones here come in handy list-form offering tips on such topics as Things Not To Do When You're Fired and Things Not To Say After A One-Night Stand.

There are an absolute maximum of three laugh-out-loud moments in this self-conscious and crass studenty sitcom, which co-stars Sinead Moynihan, slumming it here after her stint in BBC3's criminally underrated Drop Dead Gorgeous. So if you're content with a hit-rate of one laugh every 10 minutes, tune in to Dan Clark's comedy about an idiotic, priapic bloke who is left a house by his foul-mouthed nan. If, however, you fancy more charm, hunt down early 1990s US sitcom Dream On on DVD.

You might know him as Johnny Two Hats in The Mighty Boosh, but now comedian, actor and writer Dan Clark stars in his own sitcom. He plays Don, a twentysomething man with bad luck like you'd never believe - and even worse instincts. If you've ever dreamt of telling your boss exactly what you think of them, or wish you could say what you really thought after a one-night stand, this comedy will satisfy your itch as Don's overactive imagination conjures up all the things he wishes he'd said.

Following a successful pilot last year, this comedy of errors returns for a full squirm-inducing series. The multi-talented Dan Clark writes the series and also stars as the hapless Don, whose imagination tends to run away with him - giving us the chance to see the things he really wishes he'd said or done in certain situations.