The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret

First shown as a pilot in Channel 4's Comedy Showcase last year, this fitfully amusing series opener stars Arrested Development's David Cross as the titular Todd, a schmuck who goes from temping in an American office to heading up the sales team launching an energy drink to the UK. In truth the sales team is him and a callow youth called Dave, stuck in a deserted office space. It has a decent cast - including Sharon Horgan as a kindly café owner and Will Arnett, who is gloriously unhinged as Todd's boss - but they have to struggle with an uncertain tone that pitches awkwardly between embarrassment and the broad comedy of pratfalls.

Re-cut and largely refilmed from the Comedy Lab pilot, David Cross (best known as Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development and the legendary early HBO sketch show Mr Show) stars again as the clueless US temp mistakenly sent to head his company's UK division. The biggest change from the pilot is the recasting of Todd's sole employee Dave - out goes Russell Tovey, in comes a much more charming Blake Harrison, aka Neil from The Inbetweeners. Everything else, including cameos from Will Arnett and Spike Jonze, remains more or less in place and it's a funny and promising start.

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Put out as a comedy pilot last year and surprisingly turned into a series. There is a modicum of humour to be had from the idiot abroad scenario, but a little goes a long way. David Cross (Arrested Development) is Todd, a hapless American salesman despatched to London to flog a new drink.

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