Sean Maguire

Michelle Ryan stars in this super-frothy comedy about a maths teacher so obsessed with statistics she's based her life around the fact the average woman will marry her 11th sexual partner. It wouldn't have mattered if Brad Pitt had been her second boyfriend and George Clooney her third.

Statistics told Sarah "Saz" Paley that her 11th bedfellow would be her Mr Right, so that's what she's hung on for. Mister 11 is the dishy doctor Dan (Sean Maguire) and on their wedding day she has everything she's waited for, plus some bizarre Scrubs-style fantasies in which she's teaching her class the statistics of her love life.

But then a former one-night stand (Mister Nine) turns up at her wedding and reveals they never actually slept together - she passed out drunk. So Mister Nine was Mister Nearly, Mister 11 is actually Mister 10 and Saz's dream is in tatters. Well, it's not initially but the next day she makes a mountain out of a molehill, proves herself a ditzy, self-obsessed cow and screws up her own life. Not that you'll care.

The character isn't that likeable and it's hard to sympathise with her self-inflicted plight.

Her sister Beth, on the other hand, is comedy gold. Olivia Coleman, who plays her, steals not just every scene she's in but the entire episode.

Okay, there are things that don't ring true in the following set-up: Michelle Ryan is a stats-obsessed maths teacher called Saz, short for Sarah. She's heard that, on average, people marry their 11th sexual partner. And she's delighted to be marrying her Mister Eleven... Sean Maguire. Until an old fling turns up and says they never did it 'cause she was too drunk, making Sean Maguire, Mister Ten. And so she decides she needs to etc, etc.

Yes. There are holes in it. (Seriously? Saz? SAZ?) BUT, it still retains an easy charm. Michelle Ryan is better-suited to this stuff than Bionicisity, Sean Maguire has always been good and it is extremely well shot. Obviously, it's not for men, unless you're the type of guy who secretly likes rom coms (you know who you are). But really, not too bad at all.

Statistics reveal that modern women tend to marry their 11th sexual partner when they are about 28 years old. Sarah "Saz" Paley (Michelle Ryan) is an improbably glamorous maths teacher who from childhood has sought to impose numerical order on the world about her, and so here she is, aged 28, marching down the aisle with her "Mister 11" (Sean Maguire). But Mister Nine (Adam Garcia) turns up at the reception to reveal that after they met at a nightclub years before, Saz and he had both been too drunk to sleep with one another, and so now Mr Nine is Mister Not Quite, Mr 11 is demoted to Mr 10 and Saz's world promptly falls apart. This is obviously a ludicrously slight premise, but thanks to a sharp script and fine acting, this two-part romantic comedy turns out to be a delight.

Remember that scene in Four Weddings And A Funeral when Andie MacDowell lists her sexual partners to a beleaguered Hugh Grant? Well, this is sort of that, stretched out over two parts. This time, our leading lady is Michelle Ryan playing a statistics-obsessed maths teacher who reckons the 11th sexual partner is the one you should marry - the appearance of an ex on her wedding day prompts a romp through her hot-under-the-collar past. It's not entirely successful because Ryan's not much of an actress and the script is a bit lacklustre. But the eye-candy credentials of Sean Maguire and Adam Garcia, and an appearance by sweet Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel are enough to keep you paying attention.

Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire on Mister Eleven

The former EastEnders stars who found unlikely success in Hollywood: Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire discuss their new, British, two-part comedy drama.

Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire had as its "situation" a band of medieval outlaws, led by Krod, battling against an evil regime, represented by provincial governor Dongalor. Krod, a handsome, muscled hero, played by Sean Maguire in apparently the same mould as Sean Bean's Boromir in Lord of the Rings, is nevertheless a self-doubting, politically correct idiot; Dongalor, played by Little Britain's Matt Lucas, is a ludicrously sadistic narcissist with a Noel Coward drawing-room accent. The comedy is meant to come from the collision of the style of medieval heroics with sophisticated, amoral urbanity. You could see the clash - too clearly - but it sparked no wit

Video: Matt Lucas and Sean Maguire interview

For fans of action comedy Krod Mandoon, and those of you that missed the red button, here is an exclusive behind the scenes interview with Matt Lucas and Sean Maguire. It's not your normal behind the scenes stuff either as they cover the spectrum from, over friendly masseurs to Nazi rallies in Budapest and the pleasures of wearing a hairy cod piece.

The madcap sword and sorcery spoof - a blend of adolescent ribaldry and Pythonesque silliness - continues as Krod (Sean Maguire) is dispatched by the Elite Resistance Council on another hapless quest. Meanwhile Dongalor (Matt Lucas) scours the land to find the last ingredient he needs to make his super-weapon operational: the tears of a pagan woman.

Poor old Krod (Sean Maguire) is trying to organise a guerilla attack while his gang stand around bitching about what clothes are appropriate for a dress-down Friday ambush. "Guys, guys, GUYS!" he shouts. "We're here to intercept the imperial payroll shipment, OK? So forgive me if I'm all business, but I'm not really in the mood to play fashion police!" But at least their next venture - stealing a priceless gem from the purple cave of a lonely, bisexual cyclops - is more successful. The only downside is that Krod's girlfriend, the promiscuous pagan warrior queen who refuses to wear underwear (India de Beaufort), takes a shine to one Ralph Longshaft. Four episodes in, and it remains as quick-witted, imaginative, funny - and refreshingly silly - as ever.

It is, quite simply, rubbish. I could go on: crass, juvenile, ill-judged, piss-poorly written, annoying. What was Michael Gambon thinking when he agreed to narrate? Matt Lucas does make a valiant, singlehanded attempt to rescue it, with a spirited performance as the evil Chancellor Dongalor. I did quite enjoy him emptying his chamberpot over Sean Maguire. Golden Powers, the title of this episode, turn to golden showers. But poor Matt is up against too much. The best thing about this second episode is that it was only half as long as last week's opener.