No Offence
Channel 4
As regular readers will know, the phrase “comedy drama” fills me with foreboding, laced as it is with the promise of a total failure of tone and thus of serious buttock-ache for the critic. So it’s doubly amazing that I have fallen head over heels in love with No Offence (Tuesdays, 9pm), a comedy drama by Paul Abbott (State of Play, Shameless). I’ve seen only one episode but it came with a surplus of energy, wit and originality that embarrasses the hell out of some of the dross I’ve had to endure recently, so I can’t believe the next seven episodes won’t be equally brilliant.
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