Mark Wood (I)

Rev, the award-winning BBC2 sitcom, has had to make some concessions to success. It returns in an earlier slot of 9pm, writer Mark Wood told a gathering of clerics at the Church & Media forum, so the amount of swearing by the put-upon Rev Adam Smallbone (Tom Hollander) has been heavily pared back. But he is still allowed to smoke and get into scrapes, and in one episode has ecstasy slipped into his drink. The Bafta may also have helped to attract guest stars including Ralph Fiennes, who plays the Bishop of London. One clergyman told Wood they viewed Rev as a documentary. God help him.