The Angelos Epithemiou Show

This week's guests on Angelos's demented chat show are ex-Towie vajazzler Amy Childs and rapper Professor Green, while Gabby Logan and Ulrika Jonsson are also permitted to bask in his reflected glory. Logan, appearing throughout the series as Angelos's love interest, even gets the offer of having "a little fiddle about". Try as you might, it's impossible not to crack under his persistence, and though the overly sincere music number is a thumping mismatch, it doesn't detract from what is in places a very fine show.

The Angelos Epithemiou Show review

It wasn't very funny, when all's said and done, although if the studio audience is representative of fans watching at home, I guess simple minds were able to giggle at a creepy idiot asking dumb questions of two Z-list celebrities.

The Angelos Epithemiou Show - review

A parsnip fired out of someone's bottom fails to make Lucy Mangan laugh.

So the bloke who replaced Matt Lucas on Shooting Stars gets his own show. With it comes a Vic-and-Bob-style sense of surrealism and anarchy as carrier bags float down from the ceiling and toy dogs bark songs. The jury's out on whether Dan Renton Skinner's speech-impaired, burger van-owning character works spun out over 35 minutes, though there are special guests to break things up: Dr Christian Jessen is the first to be humiliated.

Starting tonight on Channel 4 is The Angelos Epithemiou Show (10.35pm), featuring the oily-haired nerd created by comic Dan Renton Skinner - and best known for his appearances on Shooting Stars.

From first impressions, I have to say this format they've given him doesn't really work for me - I just reckon he's a whole lot funnier when he's disrupting someone else's show, rather than fronting his own - but let me know what you think.

Angelos Epithemiou interview

Digital Spy interviews Dan Renton Skinner, who is in character as Angelos Epithemiou.

A stuffed dog launches the show by barking the Match of the Day theme tune. So it's probably fair to deduce that Angelos Epithemiou, aka Dan Renton Skinner, has picked up a few presentational hints from his time as Vic & Bob's comedy scorekeeper. But can he make it on his own? Inevitably, the first episode of this new series is something of a mixed bag. There's an amusing encounter with Dr Christian Jessen which suggests Angelos has potential as a socially inept Mrs Merton-style celebrity-botherer. A few sketches with his best mate Gupta which, in all honesty, don't amount to much. A new, reluctant love interest in the shape of Gabby Logan (Ulrika presumably cries herself to sleep, pining for the days when Angelos lurked in the bushes outside her home). And some encounters with the studio audience which suggest that Angelos's greatest strength remains his gift for off-the-cuff, unscripted mischief. This probably isn't particularly good news in terms of sustaining a long, fruitful career. But for the time being, this is good, unpredictable fun.

Comedy prankster Angelos Epithemiou, real name Daniel Renton Skinner, who first found fame on Shooting Stars, returns with a new series of his dubious "entertainment" show. Tonight's guests include the host of fellow Channel 4 programme Embarrassing Bodies, Dr Christian Jessen, and teenage pop star Conor Maynard. Gabby Logan will be appearing throughout the series as Epithemiou's love interest.

Dan Renton Skinner's carrier-bag-toting alter ego stars in this new variety show. Epithemiou's trademark social awkwardness and tendency to lose interest in what his guests are talking about make him the perfect host, while sidekick Gupta adds to the chaos. This week, Embarrassing Bodies presenter Dr Christian Jessen joins him for a chat, and baby-faced pop star Conor Maynard competes for the chance to perform his single Vegas Girl. Love is in the air, too, as Gabby Logan pops up as the object of Epithemiou's desires.

When Angelos Epithemiou stumbled on to Shooting Stars clutching his trademark carrier bag, he effortlessly stole the show from under the noses of Vic & Bob.

Now Channel 4 has given him his own comedy chat show, but the character just doesn't have enough depth to sustain half an hour. It has its moments, but this is a show best suited to an inebriated, undiscriminating, impressionable audience. You know - students.