OtherwOrld

One of a series of "taster" comedy pilots hatched by BBC Three earlier this year, OtherwOrld isn't really one that does the channel any favours. The idea? We're on another planet, a place not hugely unlike Earth (but one with aliens) to the extent that even the low-rent sketch show staples, crowbarred hopefully into an overarching theme, are fairly familiar. There's a bit about pandas having sex that is better than that description might lead you to believe but, otherwise, the best you can say about this is that it's mercifully short.

This is set on an Earth where a lovably evil alien like the one that bursts out of John Hurt's chest in Alien introduces a series of comedy sketches: one involving a reluctant couple of pandas in a zoo who can't get it together because the male is a Scottish drunk and the female has the hots for her keeper; another, a spoof trailer for a pastiche of Legally Blonde, where the deceptively dumb female who wants to go to Harvard Law School is played by a blow-up doll. God, they really are obsessed with sex, are they not, the kids of today? I blame Tinder.