Dean Lennox Kelly

'I am the best safe-cracker this country has ever produced!' hisses Maurice Riley (Anthony Head) as he fiddles his way through a phalanx of whirring mechanical wotsits. Such an assertion would be worrying at the best of times, but the fact that it's uttered by a man in a pink satin blindfold suggests that this is not a character to be trifled with. And he's not.

In the first episode of this curious new comedy drama we join the putatively reformed criminal and his hapless chum Syd (Warren Clarke) as they relocate from the Costa del Larceny to a dinky village in Devon. The resulting romp has some flashes of sweetness - not least the wonderful Dean Lennox Kelly as a crafty publican - but so cantankerous is Maurice, and so daft are his scrapes, that you may find it difficult to care.

A new comedy drama series that's at least a breath of fresh air from the endless round of whodunits which dominate prime time. There are criminals here too, but such feeble relics of robbers that when they're involved in a car crash during a police chase they get out to see if the bobbies are ok.

With Jenny Agutter and Shameless's Dean Lennox Kelly helping make up a solid cast, there's a couple of genuinely funny moments in the first episode, with the promise of more to come.