Norman Wisdom

Like the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, the striking thing about "Nobody is Norman Wisdom" (ATV) was the silence. There was no studio audience. The effect of all that ambient shoosh was remarkably like a week in the country: very peaceful, pleasant and - slow. It was as though someone had taken his theme song "Don't Laugh at Me" literally.

I gather from TV Times that this series is Wisdom's breakthrough into "a more sophisticated style of comedy" but you mustn't believe everything you read in the paper.