Phone shop

E4's newest "comedy"'s most redeeming feature is almost the finest (possibly unknowing) Ricky Gervais impression I've seen to date. Unsurprisinly PhoneShop's site list Ricky Gervais as the additional material writer, so you make the connection on that one if you so please...The show's main character Christopher seemingly morphs into David Brent around twenty seconds into the programme. Apart from that, come thursday at 10.00 you can look forward to several people in business wear speaking street-stylized language (a format which I'm apparently supposed to accept as hilarious given that it features in every single comedy since Armstrong and Miller first performed their famous pilot sketch) and a surreal section in which two phone-company salesman face off in what astonishingly seems to be quite a bland and ordinary quiz (with a few silly jokes about how shit phones are, cause they're so shit aren't they?). The rest is just bare-faced Brentism, radiating from Christopher (Tom Bennet) who, whilst pulling off a loveable version of the anti-hero adored throughout the few series of The Office (UK), falls short of the mark when it comes to having any comedy worth, revealing himself to be a noiseless empty husk.

As the series progresses, I have no doubt (and a lot of hope) that I will come to regret my harsh comments. PhoneShop: light entertainment for members of the public who've forgotten what comedy is, was, or just can't find the strength to change channels after a nauseatingly elephantine Hollyoaks Omnibus.