Lucy Punch

Bloods (Sky One) pairs Famalam's Samson Kayo with, bizarrely, Jane Horrocks, as a mismatched pair of paramedics. The opener has each of them struggling towards any kind of cultural rapport - he big and angry and avowedly from the 'hood, she librarian-kind and mousy and determinedly from the suburbs of somewhere northern. It somehow works as comedy, if of the sweeter rather than distinctly darker kind. Hugely helped by the outlying cast, particularly Lucy Motherland Punch as the boss with an unrequited crush on sad widower Julian Barratt. Who would (quite inexplicably) rather cry into his pint than jump her bones.

Bloods review

For a show that features crack addicts, multi-vehicle pile-ups and a cardiac arrest, Bloods is surprisingly silly.

Bloods review

Patchy paramedic comedy unlikely to split your sides.

Bloods review

A magnificent paramedic comedy full of gallows humour.

Bloods, Sky One, review

It was hard to laugh at this paramedic comedy - the medical emergencies felt too real.

Bloods, episode 1 review

Samson Kayo outshines Jane Horrocks in this odd-couple comedy.

Lucy Punch on Motherland and Bloods

The actress on having it all, her new medical comedy, the return of Amanda and why her 'snide, smug' face is a blessing.

Bloods review

The series looks for comic potential in the emergency services through the antics of two mismatched colleagues.

Motherland Christmas special review

The slapstick carnage in this one-off episode - there's a broken nose, a toppled tree and an explosion of flour - is not as funny as the more low-key moments.

Motherland Christmas Special, BBC2, review

A hilarious dose of reality at a time of forced schmaltz.