Jessica Brown Findlay

The Flatshare, review

Jessica Brown Findlay leads a Fleabag-lite romcom that sees two young people time-share a one-bedroom flat - and fall in love, naturally.

The Flatshare review

This cheesefest is as maddeningly watchable as Emily In Paris.

The Flatshare: this charming romcom is like dipping into a nice warm bath

Yes, this book adaptation - about a couple who fall in love while timesharing an apartment - has the stupidest series hook of all time. But it's fun, tight - and great hangover TV.

Wossy's back for his second series on ITV - beginning tonight but normally on Saturdays - and he's got another star-studded line-up with which to lure viewers. Tom Cruise brings the Hollywood glamour, while the stars of teen film The Inbetweeners provide the comedy. Most, however, will be tuning in for any titbits about the Downton Abbey Christmas special from the drama's aristocratic sisters, played by Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael and Michelle Dockery.

Just when the ill-starred superheroes thought they'd escaped the undead, a pesky medium summons their fallen foes from the hereafter. First to be resurrected is comely probation officer Sally who wants to kiss and make up with Simon, blithely overlooking the fact that he murdered her. It's a typically slick finale veering, as always, between lewd quips and rude shocks. Look out for Jessica Brown Findlay (Lady Sybil in Downton Abbey) behaving in a very unladylike fashion as another horny ghoul.

Just as The X Factor departs our screens, Channel 4 dances on its grave with this poison-pen satire. Written by Charlie Brooker and Konnie Huq (his wife of 16 months), it imagines a depressing future where our hero Bing (Daniel Kaluuya) is one of millions who ride exercise bikes in gyms all day while watching an X Factor-ish talent show called Hot Shot.

It's a resoundingly bleak world they've created: people live in cells with walls of interactive video screens playing ads you must pay to avoid; everyone eats from vending machines; and everyone wears grey tracksuits, unless they commit the crime of getting fat, in which case they wear yellow smocks and appear on a brutal game show called Botherguts.

Bing's dreary existence is lightened when he meets beautiful Abi (Jessica Brown Findlay from Downton Abbey) and sees a way out of the drudgery for her, via a place on Hot Shot. The story evolves (very slowly, mind you) as a haunting allegory about the way TV exploits and humiliates us, and the production design is superbly grim. Shame the targets feel big and easy.

The second of writer Charlie Brooker's three comedy-horrors. Tonight's drama satirises the sort of shows that happen to be on the other channels this evening. In a sarcastic vision of the future, everyone is confined to a life of physical drudgery. The only way to escape is to enter the Hot Shot talent show and pray you can impress the judges. The star-studded cast includes Rupert Everett, Julia Davis and Downton's Jessica Brown Findlay.