Daniel Mays

Daniel Mays' robocop Major continues on the quest for his killer with the help of his partner Carver (Stephen Graham). This week, Dennett has given the pair a new assignment but Major is growing suspicious of his wife Kelly and would rather be following her. Carver manages a distraction: fresh leads on the killer.

TV review: Code 404 series 1 episode 6

I still hope that the show comes back for a second series, the cast are all fantastic, the concept's a fun one and there's surely a lot of ideas and concepts they can play with, but if it does I hope they shake things up a little, come up with a plot which is far more complicated, and that they ditch the love triangle element completely as that particular story strand has been done to death, both here and in way too many other series as well.

Line of Duty alumni, Stephen Graham and Daniel Mays, star in the comedy-drama Code 404, written by Daniel Peak, directed by Al Campbell. They play detective partners, one of whom, John Major (Mays) was killed in action, but then resurrected by artificial intelligence. It emerges that not only has DI Roy Carver (Graham) been involved with Major's wife (Anna Maxwell Martin), but now, if his revitalised partner makes too many mistakes, he can be "switched off".

As these are the kinds of roles that Mays and Graham excel in playing straight, it took a while to adjust my perceptions. It was delivered as a classic funny/straight double act, with May hurling himself into the comedy and Graham anxiously trying to contain the fallout. While Code 404 didn't always hit the mark in this opener, the energy and enthusiasm were infectious, and with this level of talent on board I will be sticking with it.

Code 404 review

As with the bungling DI John Major himself, this comedy only just about works.

Code 404 review

About halfway through the first episode of Code 404, a six-part cop comedy starring Daniel Mays and Stephen Graham, something strange happened. It became almost unbearably bad. I say strange because up until this hazily defined point - perhaps it was the scene involving a big suitcase and a small locker - Code 404 had been a revelation.

Code 404 review

This is an original comedy from Sky and possibly their best one, thanks to the cast. The joy is that in another universe this could have been a po-faced drama, and the three leads are sending themselves up.

Code 404 review

Code 404's humour is wacky and wonderful and In these troubled times it presses all the right buttons.

Code 404 review

The comedy is pretty broad at times, but what Code 404 lacks in subtlety it makes up for in laughs.

There's a touch of Robocop in this new series where Daniel Mays stars as DI John Major, killed in the line of duty but rebooted as a bionic detective a year later and reunited with his partner DI Roy Carver (Stephen Graham) to track down his killer. Major is a few marbles short of a full brain though, so the comedy ensues.

Code 404 review

Sky's had a pretty good run with its comedy commissions lately, thanks to the likes of Breeders and Intelligence, and Code 404 - named after the 'page not found' error in internet protocols - is a solid and stupid addition to that decent slate.