Mathew Horne

'Turkey' is too noble a word for a cinematic abomination that should have slunk straight to DVD, or ideally, straight to bin. Now more overexposed than Lindsay Lohan's lady parts, James Corden and Mathew Horne take time out from being unfunny on TV to do the same in this gaggingly desperateto-be-a-cult horror/comedy. Shot in digital soft-focus à la 300, it's basically a tribute (in the sense of lazy, utterly irony-free rip-off) to ye olde Hammer Horror movies, that sees heart-broken Jimmy (Horne) and his loveable fat friend Fletch (Corden) go hiking to a remote village, only to stumble across a coven of gay girl vamps. Boasting bare boobies galore, this might appeal to Nuts readers (if they're drunk), while women viewers will be universally repelled by the horrific levels of female-fear-and-loathing. Shaun Of The Dead this most certainly ain't - in fact, it makes Ant and Dec's feeble sci-fi effort Alien Autopsy a masterpiece to rival Aliens.

Not for Kevin Bishop the diplomatic approach: his sketch show puts the boot into the foibles of the entertainment industry he's intrinsically a part of. Impersonations - a staple of Bishop's comedy - are pretty thin fare on their own, but this rapid-fire sketch show also hits some worthy targets. In tonight's show, we are shown the tragedy of Derren Brown's cab-driving brother, Darren, see Hugh Laurie's out-takes from House, and - most enjoyably - observe TV comedy's boom-and-bust duo James Corden and Mathew Horne in a remake of On the Buses.

Bafflingly, this has made the move to BBC2, so in case you didn't see the first run of the sketch show that earned the ever-present Mathew Horne and James Corden such a mauling, here's a second chance. It's hard to know what's more bleak about it - how witlessly crude it is, the air of nastiness that comes with characters like gay reporter Tim Woodall (in a war zone! In tiny shorts!) or, crucially, the lack of anything even resembling humour - unless the repeated sight of a jiggling belly is your thing.

The golden boys of Gavin and Stacey, Mathew Horne and James Corden, were rewarded with their own sketch show on BBC Three, which attracted a record audience of 817,000 for the first episode. After that, it was downhill all the way. Directed by Kathy Burke, the show was roundly slated for being amateurish, crude and aggressively unfunny. Viewing figures collapsed, with only 434,000 bothering with the final episode. In one sketch, two teachers give a joint lesson to a class on how to draw penises; in another, James Corden keeps shouting "I'm going to come!" while having sex. Elsewhere, he pulls up his shirt and rolls his stomach in front of a burger bar as a form of consumer complaint. The acting is accomplished enough, but that's as far it goes. Viewers on terrestrial television can now find out what they haven't been missing.

There must have been times in the past few weeks when Mathew Horne and James Corden have felt like bulls being chased around by banderilla-wielding critics. With savage reviews, talk of burnout and collapses on stage, the crash and burn has been spectacular. This is on time to stick any more knives in.

Indeed, in their defence, the omission of Gavin & Stacey from the Bafta nominations is a ridiculous snub that smacked of a petty attempt to cut Corden down to size. But that's not to say I'm not mightily glad to see the back of Horne & Corden, a show which started poised on the rim and ended up diving headlong down the toilet. At least the two of them finally had a big snog. Now please boys, move on.

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Paul Whitehouse guests ina 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.

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