Sheridan Smith

Sheridan Smith doubles up on her roles from Two Pints... and Grownups as the casts of these shows and the dreadful (no, really it is) Coming of Age come together for a comedy pub quiz for Comic Relief. Should be fun if you can bear any of these shows.

Apart from this being written by the same writer of Two Pints Of Lager, and also starring Sheridan Smith off of Two Pints Of Lager, and focusing on a group of 20-somethings like Two Pints Of Lager, this is nothing like Two Pints Of Lager. For instance, this is set in Manchester, not Runcorn. Anyway, this continues Sheridan's efforts to stop acting like a flipping teenager. Really, who'd still have Take That posters up these days...

After a five-year absence, Jonathan Creek returned with a two-hour special, The Grinning Man. Vanishing guests in a haunted attic was the theme, with Alan Davies joined by Sheridan Smith as his latest sleuthing sidekick.

As an audience participation puzzle it couldn't be faulted. I spent the final 30 minutes hurling increasingly desperate and ultimately incorrect speculations at the screen - It's a false knife!, It's a false corpse!, The magician is the reincarnation of his grandfather! etc - but never came close to unravelling any of the several mysteries contained in David Renwick's script.

But for all its ingenuity, Renwick's work just couldn't support its excessively indulgent running time, with the drama beginning to sag long before the murderer was revealed.

Sheridan Smith Interview

Sheridan Smith revealed a few behind the scenes secrets when I met her earlier this year.

Grownups is like Two Pints without the jokes

As a big fan of Two Pints I should like Grownups too as both are written by Susan Nickson and feature Sheridan Smith but the first series did not grab me that much.