Drifters

Hitching a ride on the coat-tails of the seventh series of The Big Bang Theory, this new British sitcom might not have a snowball's chance in hell of matching that for clever gags.

But give it a chance. It's written by and stars Jessica Knappett as Meg alongside Lydia Rose Bewley and Lauren O'Rourke, who were all in The Inbetweeners Movie.

But as these girls are in their mid-20s, it's closer in age (if not in cleverness) to Lena Dunham's Girls than a female Inbetweeners, mining that period after university when your dream career fails to drop into your lap and you end up drifting between dead-end jobs and even more dead-end relationships.

Arabella Weir and Bob Mortimer play Meg's parents.

Best bit of the second episode of tonight's double bill shows why you should never order oysters on a first date. Set in Leeds, its crassness is part of its charm.

Jessica Knappett: why she's not a female Inbetweener

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Drifters preview

Drifters is its own standalone sitcom that shouldn't need to be compared to anything that has come before. I'm really looking forward to seeing what else is in store for our three drifters as the series goes on.

Drifting with intent: Sitcom star Jessica Knappett

The actress-writer tells Holly Williams about creating Britain's answer to Girls.

How female comedy writers started taking script control

While they remain rare, female scriptwriters are being commissioned to write sitcoms on both sides of the Atlantic.

Jessica Knappett interview

A Q&A with Jessica Knappett, as her show Drifters comes to E4.