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Jay Blades and his team get to work on a brass cornet, a ventriloquist’s dummy, a Roman chair and a much-treasured but now crumbling handwritten notebook. In an admirably democratic approach to the animal kingdom, creatures from honey bees and tadpoles to polar bears and penguins have their behaviours lovingly filmed and analysed.

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Capers (dognapping, pigeon rearing) are deftly woven into the serious stuff as Horse (Paul Barber) struggles to sign on, Lomper (Steve Huison) keeps loan sharks at bay and Dave and Jean (Mark Addy and Lesley Sharp) battle to save their marriage.ĭavid Attenborough is back on narration duties for the four-part second series of this eye-popping wildlife extravaganza which this time focuses on migration. Over a quarter of a century after they took everything off, Gaz (Robert Carlyle) and his five fellow former steelworkers-turned-strippers are back for an eight-part series from original writer Simon Beaufoy (along with Trust co-writer Alice Nutter) that proves an equally enticing blend of silliness and social commentary. All seven, easily digestible episodes are on iPlayer if the ending suggests that they may now have run out of road, it still leaves us with several set-pieces to cherish. Then, something unexpected happens and, even after the meta stylings of series two, events become more complex. We are initially led over familiar ground as David Tennant (stuck in Tokyo while filming a cream cheese advert), Michael Sheen (bored at home) and their real-life spouses Georgia and Anna attempt to keep their insistent former collaborator Evans at bay as he plans to revive his own ailing career with a radio play starring the Good Omens pairing.Īnd yet, in spite of the irresistible, self-mocking Sheen-Tennant chemistry, a frantic farce around a birthday party and some starry cameos, diminishing returns look set to take root. But Simon Evans’s deft script finds new ways to have fun with the notion remote working and online meetings, after all, remain commonplace.

Having become an unlikely needs-must hit over lockdown, it always felt like a bit of a stretch to bring a comedy centred around Zoom and social distancing back for a third series in the post-Covid age.

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