filmcomedybuff Many comedies on the BBC have been extremely poor in recent years. This one has had a great deal of attention for its awfulness. It is bad - primarily, the writing is amateur at best - but there have been much worse, like Two Doors Down, which is one of the worst television shows ever created. At least this one has a talented cast on its side. John Cleese can't help but be funny, even when the scripts are this terrible. Similarly Alison Steadman and James Cosmo is just naturally likeable. It's not good, but starting with a dreadful pilot, it did get a bit better as it went on. Don't be surprised if it gets a second series. With Two Doors Down just finishing season 3, its clear they'll try anything.

dmcmrd Awful. Stereo typical 'Terry & June' Metropolitan/Home Counties suburbia. (Might be Maidenhead, the bridge looked familiar?) Silly, but not in a good 'Reeves & Mortimer' way. The script obvious and very unoriginal. So I expect the Beeb will already be commissioning another 10 series to bore us for the next several years. Hope not.

quicksmartmcoy There are comedies like Bottom, the young ones and father ted which are funny in an anarchic way and there are slow burning comedies about relatable characters you fall in love with, like Him and Her, Mum, The Royle Family, early doors and Rover. This is neither, it's not funny because there is neither anarchy nor relatable characters, in the US they get round this problem by adding laugh tracks and soap opera style drama and romance to cover the cracks of two dimensional characters and bland writing, but Hold The Sunset has neither, it is a show without appeal. It is crap.

audidude Jason Watkins as a comic character? Has previously played a murderer twice in previous TV dramas. Who thought he had any comic talent?