Tracey and Sharon may be sisters, but they live very different lives. Tracey has a luxurious mansion with indoor swimming pool in leafy Essex, whilst Sharon resides in a grubby high-rise council flat in Edmonton. But when their husbands, Darryl and Chris, are convicted of armed robbery and sent to prison, the sisters are forced to live together. They become good - if not begrudging - friends with next-door-neighbour Dorien, whose hobby is cheating on her husband with much younger men. Together, Sharon and Tracey must face the dramas, tragedies, stresses and strains of keeping up with the world, without their husbands to support them.

Our Review: Birds Of A Feather was a hugely successful programme, spanning 9 series over as many years, and totalling 102 episodes. Its mass appeal brought a huge fan base and a decade of success, but equally sees it with a less than flattering reputation 10 years on.

The broad humour and very female-centric nature of the programme hasn't won many new fans in a decade obsessed with realistic, 'cutting edge', largely male-oriented comedy, but nevertheless it does stand up reasonably well in its own right, and has certainly not aged as much as some of its contemporaries.