David Jason

This is David Jason's first new comedy series in 20 years - but what a disappointment it turns out to be.

It was written by Justin Sbresni and Mark Bussell - the creators of The Worst Week Of My Life - but the humour feels creaky and out-dated.

In a set-up suspiciously reminiscent of Rowan Atkinson's hapless spy Johnny English, Jason stars as Guy Hubble who is mistakenly promoted from the Buckingham Palace car park detail to head of Royal security, only to make a predictable hash of everything he touches.

In the first episode tonight, he's at a hotel in Scotland trying to foil an assassination attempt on the Queen.

Just as there are plenty of viewers out there who remain inexplicably enthralled by New Tricks, I suppose there might be a ready-made audience who are prepared to laugh at the sight of Jason in his Y-fronts. I can't see the attraction myself.

Interview: David Jason, actor

We've loved him as Del Boy and Jack Frost, and this Christmas David Jason returns to the small screen with another hit - an old-fashioned comedy about a bumbling royal bodyguard.

David Jason on comedy career & not pushing boundaries

The star of The Royal Bodyguard is not keen on swearing, violence - or interviews, he tells Andrew Duncan.

Sit back, pour yourself an after-dinner drink and enjoy a really good laugh as David Jason presents Christmas clips from The Goon Show, Morecambe and Wise, Only Fools and Horses and The Royle Family. And there are even a few choice words from Ronnie Corbett.

David Jason believes royals will approve comedy

Sir David Jason believes his new comedy will meet with royal approval.

The spirit of Clouseau lives on in Guy Hubble (David Jason - looking a tad aged for some of these stunts, bless him), an incompetent chosen as head of security at the Palace. He got the job because he saved the Queen from a runaway carriage, having accidentally scared the horses in the first place. If your idea of hilarity is Mr Bean, or Jason falling through the pub bar in Only Fools and Horses, then look no further.

Inexplicably scheduled at an hour when the audience most likely to appreciate it has long been tucked up in bed, this exceedingly silly six-parter stars national treasure David Jason as Capt Guy Hubble, a lifelong soldier and ageing bungler promoted to head Buckingham Palace security. Fortunately, the world's terrorists display an incompetence that outshines even Hubble's ineptitude.

David Jason on first BBC comedy role in 20 years

The Royal Bodyguard is 71-year-old David Jason's first comedy for the BBC for 20 years, but he says he has never really strayed far from the genre.

David Jason slates EastEnders as too 'dreary'

Only Fools and Horses legend Sir David Jason has urged the BBC to cheer up "dreary" soap EastEnders with a cheeky Del Boy-style character.

Sir David Jason interview

Sir David Jason talks us about his new comedy series The Royal Bodyguard and why he's back on BBC1 after 20 years away...