No Heroics

You can't have superheroes without geeks and Electroclash and She-Force meet their public tonight at a fan convention which, like everything else about these caped clowns, is a little bit pants.

Filling in their back story, we learn that the girls were once a duo who went by the brilliant name of Lady Trouble. It's little details like that, as well as faultless comedy acting from the entire cast and a super-sized dose of cynicism, that marks No Heroics out as a real labour of love and not just another sitcom.

Tonight also sees The Hotness rush out to foil a drugs bust in Putney while Timebomb, the gay tart, is tempted by sex with a stranger in the pub toilet. Let's face it - not the sort of scenarios you'd ever have seen in the Beeb's limp but long-running My Hero.

The second episode continues to show the potential in this daft sitcom about off duty superheroes, but you do get the sense that so much more could be done with the format. This week, two of the heroes aren't too pleased to be guests at a fan convention, but sometimes superheroes have to do things they don't want to. A lot of the gags misfire, but there are enough laughs to keep me coming back - just.