Paul Duddridge

I've been watching the first episode of Rob Brydon's new BBC3 endeavour Annually Retentive, which is now available on broadband. And, well, it's pretty good. [...] But the really brilliant thing, as with all Brydon's projects, is in his eye for the detail. The actual panel game itself is an excruciating fascimile of the real thing, complete with all the lazy tics and riffs.

Director's Commentary is part of that tradition of smart-arse people talking over other people's programmes (Harry Hill's TV Burp, Beavis and Butthead, Animal Magic) by way of sundry E. L. Wisty diversions ("I've always said the thyroid is the cruellest gland"), and brightens up ITV's Wednesday-night schedules like a bunch of stolen daffodils.