Two misfits struggle to survive in the lurid world of FILTH, a weekly lads' mag. Rob (James Buckley) has a knack for lads' mag writing, but the job threatens his chances of ever having a relationship. Mike (Danny Morgan) couldn't be less suited to the job: he's naive, sensitive and a virgin, but eager to learn.

They are minnows in a testosterone pond, ruled over by Chad (Danny Dyer), an ex-military uber-lad, and Michelle (Tracy-Ann Oberman), their ball-busting editor, who embodies the magazine better than any man in the place.

In this pilot episode the main storyline revolves around a bet between Michelle and Chad. Michelle says she can take Mike's virginty, but Chad thinks he can get Mike to sleep with one of the magazine models. The two battle to win the bet.

Our Review: This sitcom was pretty rude and crude at times (topics of conversation included wanking, sex and faeces) yet, somehow, it still managed to come across as fairly warm and loveable. Much of the credit for achieving this can probably be taken by James Buckley and Danny Morgan who play their roles with cheeky enthusiasm (they both previously starred together in BBC Three university sitcom Off The Hook).

Filth was not perfect by any means (some of the dialogue came across as quite scripted for example, and the characters were fairly one dimensional), but in the half-hour pilot it demonstrated it could deliver a decent sitcom plot and a set of likeable characters, and so we'd welcome seeing more from the lads mag's office.

A black mark against Channel 4 though - some of the key dialogue at the end of Filth was lost as a continuity announcement kicked in too early and drowned out what the characters were saying.