SunTrap

It takes quite a script to make Bradley Walsh seem mannered, and the likes of Kayvan Novak, Jamie Demetriou and Keith Allen vanish into the background, and I can only surmise that the actors fancied a spot of filming in the sun. Neil Webster and Charlie Skelton's sitcom told of an undercover reporter on the run on a Spanish island.

Final episode of the sun-splashed sitcom-slash-showreel for Kayvan Novak. Brutus's bar is to be snapped up by a property developer, resulting in a handsome handout for Brutus and a looming eviction notice for Woody. Luckily for him, small-time boat tour operator Pirate Pete has a problem with an overly competitive rival and is willing to lavish lucre on anyone able to uncover evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Less luckily, a plot by actual pirates to nobble the investigative reporter seems to be afoot.

A hypnotists' convention hits the island and an exacting audience are seeking a little more from mediocre mentalist The Fabulous Mark, whose big finish backfires in a less-than-fabulous manner. With an audience member on the lam, potentially armed - and under the impression he's the hypnotist's demented nemesis - Woody and Brutus are despatched to seek out the desperado. Meanwhile, Donald finds himself in a wheelchair, leaving wife Melody desperate to avoid playing nurse.

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SunTrap should be ClapTrap as it is a mirthless mess

A talented cast led by Bradley Walsh and Kayvan Novak are lumbered with lines so bad they have no chance of salvaging this show.

Being on holiday in Spain is supposed to be relaxing. But there's a manic, motormouth feel to this Kayvan Novak-starring sitcom that makes it seem as if it's been left out in the sun a little too long. Putting aside the fact that Novak and a bristly Bradley Walsh are both playing former tabloid journalists - hardly the most sympathetic of character traits - their farcical Costa del Crime antics have more in common with 'Allo 'Allo! than Death In Paradise, though Novak's considerable repertoire of accents is put to good use.

Radio Times review

Kayvan Novak's chirpy ex-hack Woody embarks on another silly caper about a drugs set-up culminating in various high jinks in a funeral parlour. Meanwhile, his old colleague, Bradley Walsh's bar owner Brutus, has to deal with the arrival of his ex-wife, who's none too pleased to discover that her erstwhile (and very much alive) spouse faked his suicide to escape marriage and alimony.

But not even a deliciously angry Tracy-Ann Oberman can entirely rescue an instalment that has a sprinkling of good moments but one or two duff ones. I've seen later episodes and can promise that it picks up.

The real SunTrap - Location guide

Writer and producer Neil Webster guides us around the setting of Bradley Walsh and Kayvan Novak's new comedy.

SunTrap episode 1 review

Falling largely flat from the opening moments, the sun will set on this show soon enough, but based on this opener, it already feels like it's been left out in the heat too long.

SunTrap is utter...

Last night I was full of hatred. I was angry, consumed with vitriol and all because of something on the telly. Some shows should come with a warning for those with blood pressure issues. The show in question is a 'comedy' entitled SunTrap. You could read the following review, but if you had the good sense to avoid this programme, let me just say it was the worst BBC comedy since 2013's The Wright Way. Just typing those three words caused me to shudder.