Steve Glover

I shall miss Heartburn Hotel (BBC1) very much. [...] I tell you, slip it on at the National Theatre and it would pass as Samuel Beckett.

First Basil Fawlty. Then that frightening woman at the Adelphi, who charged you for sleeping on the floor. Now the darkly funny Heartburn Hotel (BBC1) or, more properly, The Olympic, named in the belief that Birmingham would host the Olympics. An appropriate home for no-hopers. [...] It's like looking down a plug hole and seeing small, bright eyes looking back.