Show Rating:

It's difficult to work out exactly what this rookie duo is aiming at with this slightest of comedies.

McCloud and Black play two posh office girls with plummy accents trading thinly-veiled insults and inconsequential banter in their undefined jobs.

But the characters are too one-dimensional to be realistic, with their stagey, unnatural dialogue, and not funny enough to be caricatures.

The jokes, such as they are, are a mixture of leaden puns and abysmally unrealistic misunderstandings all blatantly telegraphed. ("Leonardo Dicaprio? Didn't he paint the Mona Lisa?" or "I took a sabbatical. Who's Sabbatical?")

Yet it's only fair to report that at least half the audience reacted with the inexplicable ferocity of canned laughter on an ITV sitcom.

There are a few decent moments, such as the exchange of stingingly bitchy insults; and the attempt to integrate hidden-camera footage and filmed sketches into the live stuff is a good idea, if let down by the quality of humour.

But essentially this feels more like 'stuff that's happening on a stage' than a properly conceived show, and it certainly doesn't carry any comedic weight.