davebowker I actually watched up until episode 4, just to give it a proper chance. Every time I watch it I hate myself a little more.The writing is terrible, the 'jokes' are flat, the characters aren't likable and the acting sucks.Why this is on the BBC I don't know. I'd have a hard time giving it a slot on channel 5 at the midnight slot on a Wednesday.If you're a lover of health and safety, you'll hate this show. If you're a hater of health and safety, you'll hate this show.I'm having a hard time filling up the required amount of lines to say just how bad this show is. If this last paragraph looks like filler text then it is. I will say that this is the first review I've ever given on IMDb, even though I've been a member for years. That's how bad this show is. I had to tell you.

Trevor Mcinsley You would think that overzealous health and safety would make for good comic fodder. Indeed there are a few good lines on the subject and the main character is exactly what I imagine these people to be like in real life. He plays it pretty well.Unfortunately the programme fails to deliver so much in every other regard that it is genuinely just painful to watch. It is actually impressive just how they could ruin this to such an extent. If Ben Elton were not the writer this never would have seen the light of day. Indeed if this was the first thing Ben Elton ever produced neither would his career... it pains me to say.An array of stock characters which feel like they are almost designed solely with the intention of being annoying and physically unpleasant to watch. Silly voices, pseudo catchphrases and incredibly predictable (but enormously strung out) punchlines... coupled with just the most over-the-top laughter track I have ever encountered makes this utterly dreadful.If you took every half decent line from the entire series as a whole you might just be able to squeeze out a twenty minute sketch show that'd actually be vaguely entertaining... but I doubt it.

simon3818 This is getting a 7 because of the scripts - which i will come to later.Most have panned this as rubbish but i like it. Great idea of Health & Safety office in a council as its not been done and there's always a daft story about a council somewhere in the UK doing something completely stupid. This ridicules it.Gearld Wright is the head of the H&S team which is a ram-shackled collection of different personalities (ill leave that to surprise) and has a habit of using a million words to describe something where ten would do. They are constantly looking into the H&S of daft things, last episode i watched was about pins in the packaging of shirts...His home life isn't much better than work with his ex wife showing up with her Adonis of a new boyfriend, daughter Susan moving in her girlfriend who has trouble speaking English....Its a laugh in my opinion (and I'm going to get rated down for that) The humour is obvious and, OK it might be a laughter track, is funny with laughs in the right place unlike modern comedies where you have to look for the humour (read my review on Cuckoo). Ben Eltons scripts do contain a lot of his stand up shows but it is funny. Only thing i would have done different is made the daughter and her girlfriend as sisters as they are different personalities where adding in boyfriends would give it another route for comedy. I said ignore the critics and watch it for yourself..

Mouth Box In these enlightened days of clear and prominently displayed health and safety signs, I think I should warn you about this programme right from the start: Danger! Comedy Free Zone! Ben Elton used to be a bold,funny, intelligent, era-defining stand-up. He co-wrote Blackadder, one of the most finely crafted and hilarious sitcoms of his generation. He wrote books that became instant best-sellers. So, who is the man behind "The Wright Way", and what the hell has he done with Ben Elton? I didn't really like Gordon Brittas the first time around, and I like him even less in his apparent reincarnation as Gerald Wright, a stressed-out health and safety executive working at Baselricky Town Hall. But, like Shakespeare's comedies, every episode of The Brittas Empire had at least one laugh in it. The Wright Way has no laughs in it at all.There's no room for subtlety in David Haig's performance at Gerald Wright. He shouts, he pulls funny faces, he puts on a silly voice. But whatever he does, Haig cannot alter the fact that the script is not even mildly amusing, and the underlying structure of the show is fatally flawed.The setting feels hackneyed, the characters are badly thought out, thinly drawn, and utterly two dimensional.There's a mayor who speaks only using backwards sentences. There's a man-eating, middle-aged Asian woman. There's a vaguely camp guy who looks a bit like Alan Carr, and another bloke who doesn't appear to possess any character traits at all, other than the handy ability to pick up any line of dialogue that Elton hasn't allocated to one of the others.At home, there's Wright's daughter and her lesbian partner. Another box ticked for the right-on commissioning editors at the BBC, who probably spent more time deciding how many gay and ethnic characters there should be in the series than they did actually reading the script.It all feels very lazy indeed – even the title of the show is indistinct and will be easily confused in the TV listings with The Wright Stuff on Channel 5.Perhaps Mr. Elton should spend less time listening to pimply comedy executives and focus groups, and more time following his instincts and listening to the little voice in his head that used to tell him the right way to make people laugh. I'm reminded of the old adage that the camel was designed by committee.Unfunny is too small a word for it. If anyone happens to find Ben Elton's Mojo, please be kind enough to put it in a jiffy bag and post it back to him immediately.Read more reviews at Mouthbox.co.uk