Britain's Peep Show is a lot like olives. Sample just one and you'll wonder why the hell everybody talks about how good it is. But pop back three in a row and by the time the last remnants of that third one are fading you'll be hooked for life and swearing on the grave of your long dead grandmother that it's one of the best things ever.
Now, Peep Show has never exactly been what you'd call a ratings gang-buster but the two principals of the show - David Mitchell and Robert Webb - have apparently entered into a blood-pact with the Devil requiring them to continue working with each other for the rest of their natural born lives. This may be bad for their souls but it's good for fans. The latest effort from the duo? Playing Shop, a new show they've written together and are about to shoot a pilot for in which the pair, freshly laid off, decide to run their own business out of their garden shed but only if they can do so "without getting up before eleven or ever missing Bargain Hunt". Yes, please.
Something they've written? Ugh, no thanks, Peep Show is only good because it wasn't written by them, their sketch show was crap...
I don't like olives. :(