"That’s just the chemo talking…"

BBC3’s ‘Nighty Night’ at last made the transition to BBC2 on Monday night, and it was well worth the wait. The series is written by Julia Davies, and, as one might expect given her involvement in Chris Morris’s ‘Jam’, her brainchild is more than a little grotesque and twisted, much of the humour tastefully centring on her on-screen husband Kevin Eldon’s cancer and her neighbour’s spinal injuries. “Dark” is one way of describing it…

The most memorable scene from the first instalment was when, as part of a self-help group, Davies’s character began performing a dance to express her feelings at her husband’s illness – but, when her lecherous new neighbour (played by Angus Deayton – an inspired bit of casting) entered, her dance took on a seductive and erotic edge. Sickest of all, though, was the fact that the whole scene was set to a fucking Marillion song. More of the same next week, please.

Now I’ve just got to wait in anticipation until Vic and Bob's ‘Catterick’ surfaces on terrestrial TV…