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Corden and Horne chased by ITV as rating rise

Up 150,000 viewers on the previous week, the show is becoming something of a cult hit with students.

Horne & Corden Review

I tried, really I did. I like the guys and some of the vitriol that has been flung their way recently has been over the top to say the least. However, the fact is that a lot of the sketches in their BBC Three show are underworked and overlong.

Gavin & Stacey Cut Short

The new series of Gavin & Stacey has been cut from seven to six episodes. James Corden and Ruth Jones - who write the comedy hit and star as Smithy and Nessa - are too busy to make the full run.

Paul Whitehouse guests in a magnificently silly office redundancy sketch, while dance duo Jonny and Lee Miller prance about to Enya's Orinoco Flow in an otherwise comedically flabby instalment. The similarity of Mathew Horne's informercial man to Martin Kemp is distracting, though.

Second series of Horne & Corden in pipeline

The BBC is in "advanced discussions" over a second series of the Tiger Aspect sketch show Horne & Corden, despite a poor critical reception.

However, the series which stars Gavin and Stacey actors Mathew Horne and James Corden, is not being considered for BBC2 as some reports have suggested.

Corden And Horne Set For Second Series

Comedy pair James Corden and Mathew Horne have defied their critics by landing a second series of their sketch show. But Beeb chiefs are backing their star men - and promoting them on to BBC2.

Corden Blue

The big lad from Gavin & Stacey has recently been far from the bubbly Smithy the nation has grown to love. Big Jim hit rock bottom last week after taking to heart brutal criticism of his new TV comedy sketch show Horne & Corden.

Scorn & Corden

Comedy duo Mat Horne and James Corden's new sketch show has proved a turn-off - losing nearly half its viewers after two episodes.

I did a bad thing during Horne and Corden (BBC3). I'm sorry, and if it's any consolation I'm not pleased with myself. But I laughed. I actually couldn't help it. It was in the first bit, where Corden goes up to a kid in a wheelchair in the audience. And the kid is saying that it's really hard with her old manual chair, especially now her dad has a bad back, and what she'd really like is an electric chair but they cost £5,000. And Corden says that he and Horne have clubbed together for one, and I'm thinking: Oh God they've turned into Noel Edmonds, this is the most horrible, sickening thing I've ever seen. And then Horne comes on with this massive electric chair, the sort you execute people with in America. Old Sparky. And I just couldn't help it, I laughed. Because it was funny, I suppose.

I'm not proud. It didn't happen again in the rest of the show, hasn't happened in either of the previous shows, won't happen again, I promise. They're still a couple of plonkers.

This skitcom has a confidence out of whack with its material, but there are still some sizeable sniggers, including James Corden's neat Ricky Gervais stitch-up and the Team GB gymnasts on the rings. A nice nod to the old guard, too, with Tim Brooke-Taylor guesting at Bananaman's funeral.