Ladies And Gentlemen

it's not exactly Peep Show is it?

The show consisted of a group of disconnected characters, with barely a semblance of plot. The premise of the show was thinly sketched in, it was set in the Victorian period and made vague reference to the manners and mores of this period but never really exploited the humour and detail that a viewer would expect from a period sitcom.

Blog Review

The first half of the show is undoubtedly the worst, labouring to quickly set-up the characters and relationships.

Written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong (Peep Show, The Thick of It) and boasting a pedigree cast, which includes Reece Shearsmith, Darren Boyd and Rosie Cavaliero, the second in this commendable comic endeavour doesn't quite deliver the laughs you might expect. The tale of a houseshare in Victorian London, it is silly and clever and marvellously parodies the conventions, characters and cliches of Victorian fiction. With relatives on deathbeds, frustrated spinsters only occupied with embroidery and ebullient doctors, it provides some smirks but there are no laugh-out-loud moments.

A Victorian sitcom. It sounds like an irresistible premise, and the fact that it's written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong only serves to increase the anticipation. But if Ladies And Gentlemen - the second in C4's season of six sitcom pilots - doesn't quite work, there's still a huge amount to enjoy.