Review by Steve Bennett

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.

Review date: 1 Jan 2002
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett