Outnumbered

I am so excited this show is back and I can't believe it missed out at The Baftas this year. For me it is hands down the best sitcom on tv. I caught up with the first episode of series 3 on iplayer last night - typically hilarious!

It’s the ridiculous and realistic comments that make Outnumbered what it is. Conversations include what would happen in a fight between the Queen and the prime minister, (“The Queen can’t just have people killed”, “she killed Diana”), Karen giving her own critique of Van Gogh’s art (“it’s all squiggly, he should have went over it”) and how the government makes laws (“they read the Daily Mail and do what it says”).

This episode kicks off with a sight-seeing tour around London, giving the Brockman family the opportunity to spend quality time away from their home without constant bickering. But as sitcom law dictates nothing is allowed to run smoothly or detract from the actually thing that made it famous so of course it was going to open with the dad Peter warning his son Ben off playing “spot the chav” on a crowded bus. while the alpha male fails to command any shred of respect from his young offspring his wife Sue tries to fend off being bored by his mother, who naively organised the trip. On the way, and as to be expected from a comedy that's actually funny, there’s a couple of laughs too.

Definitely not one to be missed.