Gabbie Asher

On Location: Personal Affairs

Gabbie Asher, writer and creator of Personal Affairs, talks about on going on location but letting go on set.

Gabbie Asher, Broadcast, 18th June 2009

Personal Affairs put me in mind of Superman. Not because it had superheroic powers, far from it, but because it had the whole 'is it a bird, is it a plane' thing going on. As in 'is it a comedy, is it a thriller, is it a drama?' The short answer is that this London-based spin on Sex And The City is a bit of a shambles. Someone should have told writer Gabbie Asher that everyone having sex in lifts and cupboards doesn't make you edgy and modern, it just makes you look a bit desperate.

As ludicrous plot contrivance piled upon contrivance - it's all to do with a bunch of put-upon PAs and their struggles with men/jobs - the relentless man-hating (sample line: 'you're a man, your infidelity Occupation, BBC1 was inevitable') bored my rocks off.

Keith Watson, Metro, 17th June 2009