SKETCHY! The Kevin Bishop Show, Channel 4, 10.00pm
New comedy is a little thin on the ground on Channel 4 these days, with all the innovative stuff by the 4 network tending to debut on E4. So it’s nice to see a new series, albeit one from someone who has ‘previous’.
The Kevin Bishop Show is the first solo star vehicle (save a slightly hit and miss pilot episode) for the star of, well, Star Stories. We are promised a fast-paced sketch show, in a similar vein to The Fast Show, but with more celebrity sketches.
What made Star Stories work (for the most part, anyway) was its slightly surreal take on celebrities and no real pretebce that the actors ‘were’ the characters (see also the much-missed – well, by me, anyway – Rock Profile). Hopefully Bishop’s impressions here will have retain that attitude of playing about with the truth a bit.
Admittedly the trailer for this series is a bit patchy, but early reviews have been good, so it should make for decent Friday night fodder in between trips to that house.
