Jackie Clune

New mockumentary, narrated and exec-produced by Ralf Little, that follows a dysfunctional border control team at a minor UK airport as they cope with impassive foreign nationals, drug smugglers and bellicose Home Office directives. It's The Office with cavity searches, although judging by this bumpy first episode, it may take a while to find a groove. Edinburgh fringe veteran Jackie Clune is reliably good as harried team leader Linda Proctor.

TV preview: Borderline

Much is made of how Borderline is part-improvised, though it's the result, not the process, that matters, and the subdued tone does mean it's relatively short on laugh-out-loud moments, though there are plenty of droll smiles. And while the characters are engaging, they don't have the strong personalities that would make Borderline an appointment-to-view, though that's always a hard call to make from just one episode before we know them properly.

TV review: Borderline, 5

There is very little that is original about Borderline, written by Chris Gau and Mike Orton-Toliver and partly improvised by the cast, but the good news is that there are some nice performances and decent slow-burn gags.

Borderline is proof that the mockumentary is alive

Real life, properly portrayed, almost always contains moments of inadvertent hilarity. That was the whole grounding of the spoof-documentary style made famous by The Office. Borderline, a new comedy set in the border control department of a fictional Northend Airport, showed that mockumentary remains very funny when done well.

C5's original comedy Borderline has great promise

For the first time in nine years, Channel 5 has created its own comedy series, Borderline. Set in the fictional Northend airport, the mockumentary follows a group of inept border guards trying to enforce Home Office policy. It is truly a comedy for post-Brexit Britain, and it has promise.

These bullies reek of misogyny

What a cynical and degrading spectacle to finish the year: drunken, boorish comedians quaffing red wine and stuffing their faces with pizza while swearing and making crass, sexist jokes. I'm not easily offended, but the easy, casual misogyny of Channel 4's attempt at satirical comedy on Sunday evening, made me feel incredulous and angry.