People Just Do Nothing

The series finale of the Brentford-set mockumentary is here, and it's a day of reckoning for Beats and Grindah as Kurupt FM puts on its first ever garage night. Suitably, it's being held in an actual garage, otherwise known as Chabuddy's latest business venture: a horrifically shoddy club called Champagne Steam Rooms. Operating in a world of sweetly modest ambition and near-constant buffoonery, this stealthily charming series manages to capture the tone of life in the midst of barren suburbia uncannily well.

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It's hard to convey a sense of the learning and the emotions that go alongside making a programme, particularly one that you feel close to.

The first episode in the second series for the hit, west London-based mockumentary following pirate radio proprietors and all-round incompetents MC Grindah and DJ Beats (Allan Mustafa and Hugo Chegwin). Idiocy ensues as Grindah prepares for daughter Angel's "christianing", enlisting the help of jack-of-all-trades Chabuddy G and the drug-addled Steves. Meanwhile, Beats is on a mission to prove that he would make the ideal godfather. Fresh, farcical comedy with a soft spot for suburban loserdom.

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Everyone wants to be a garage MC but few have the skills of the legendary Kurupt FM crew. Here, they share the secrets of their 'inspiration'.

People Just Doing Nothing, TV review

BBC Three comedy will make you wince and 'lol'.

Grindah's guide to being a good godfather

One thing that a lot of parents do wrong is to constantly moan and try and stop their kids from doing stuff. As a godfather, my advice to you would be let them do whatever they want - they'll respect you for that and think that you're way more cool and generally better than anyone else.

Preview: People Just Do Nothing, BBC3

At first glance you might think that People Just Do Nothing is pretty niche youth programming from BBC Three. A fly-on-the-wall documentary about a bunch of baseball capped no-marks running a pirate radio station called Kurupt FM in Brentford? Hardly crossover potential surely. But you'd be wrong. I've got a friend who works for Stannah Stairlift-advertising Saga magazine who doesn't know his garage from his grime and he loves it. He has excellent taste.

How BBC3's latest comedy started as a series on YouTube

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Radio Times review

The mockumentary about the absolute idiots who run a London pirate radio station gains a harder edge this week, as we go deeper into MC Grindah's astonishingly poor parenting. It's little Angel's fifth birthday and so, while she and mum Michelle are out with the girl's suspiciously similar-looking "Uncle" Decoy, Grindah organises the party. Local entrepreneur Chabuddy G offers a shipment of his money-spinning "Polish Vodka", so called because the key ingredient is window polish: "We had a few teething problems... people losing their teeth and that."

Amid the crude but very funny gags, little Angel's party is bleak - something the show boldly doesn't play entirely for laughs.