Angelo's is a greasy spoon cafe based just off London's bustling Trafalgar Square, and is home to a hybrid of surreal comedy characters whose lives intertwine.

Angelo is the widowed, Italian café owner who loves the Queen Mum, but has an intolerance for foreigners, especially tourists that spend all day sitting around with just 'one bloody cup of coffee'.

Angelo is un-ably assisted by his daughter Maria, an aspiring X Factor contestant who thinks that London is one of the few places on Earth where the talentless can live out their dreams. She is shadowed by her best friend Alicia who, like all good best mates, constantly undermines Maria and tries to steal her boyfriend Mickey.

Other characters include Kris, a living statue and mime artist covered head-to-toe in gold, who has a crush on Maria, and mini-cab driver Shelley, a nymphomaniac 'virgin'.

Then there's local bobbies Dave and Karen, a married couple who are having trouble conceiving: she's beginning to wonder if Dave's sleazy brother Kevin is up to the task...

Our Review: This sitcom was in development hell for over four years, but in our opinion it was worth the wait. Angelo's is a warm, subtle comedy with the characters right at the heart of the show - something many contemporary sitcoms neglected. The characters are all neatly defined, and each funny in their own right - which makes putting them together in the same setting all the more interesting.

Miranda Hart as taxi driver Shelley, Simon Farnaby as the mime artist and Kim Wall as the unemployed Russell have got to receive a special mention. They don't even need to speak to raise a smile; their characters' backgrounds and mannerisms are enough alone to do this.

However, we're in somewhat of a minority in enjoying Angelo's so much. It undoubtedly had fans, but after numerous delays to broadcasting the series, the six episodes quietly played out on late-night Channel Five (and then Paramount Comedy Channe) to small audiences. A look at our message board reveals that many who did tune in found the show's pace to be a bit too slow and quickly gave up.

Combining those factors with Channel Five's freeze on scripted comedy, it's no real surprise that Angelo's didn't return for a second series.