Every Friday night, twenty-something brothers Adam (Bird) and Jonny (Rosenthal) Goodman return to their parents' home for dinner.

Adam and Jonny think of the weekly event as a necessary annoyance - necessary because they get fed, and annoying because, well, they have to spend the evening with Mum and Dad. It's not that Mum and Dad aren't wonderful. They really are. But Dad slugs ketchup straight from the bottle, Mum is obsessed with Masterchef and even Grandma likes to wear her new bikini around the house.

As for the next generation, there is much consternation that Jonny's girlfriend, Alison, is nothing less than 'made-up' and not even the Internet can sort out a "female" for Adam. Maybe this is because Adam writes jingles for toilet roll adverts, and Jonny's favourite party trick is to jump out of bin-liners onto unsuspecting victims. Of course every family has its foibles, its rituals and its eccentricities. It's just that the Goodmans have made something of an art form of theirs...

Series 2: A second six-part series, plus a Christmas special is now in development. In the new series, Adam goes on a date with a girl who smells like mum, Jonny starts going out with an older woman, Mum is forced out the house by a mouse, Dad starts drying fish in the downstairs cupboard, Jim makes a birthday cake for his dog, Grandma has an affair with a married man, and we meet Dad's mother - 'Horrible Grandma'.

The second series and a Christmas special will be on Channel 4 later this year, and are being directed by Martin Dennis.

Our Review: Friday Night Dinner would appear to be a winning idea. A pilot was commissioned for digital channel E4, but having seen the trial episode, Channel 4 decided to upgrade the show to a full series on the main channel instead.

Whilst we've been rather enjoying the series, we're really not sure it's lived up to some of the hype. Both Channel 4 and many respected friends and colleagues of writer Robert Popper publicised the series in the most glowing terms, but we've felt let down: whilst funny, the laughs just aren't constant or consistent enough. We've also been somewhat put off by the fact that despite its adherence to current trends for hyper-realism (being filmed on location, no audience and so on), it seems to slip more into silly-studio territory and filming styles on occasion - the best example of this was where the entire family were supposedly crowded into an under-stairs lavatory, and yet it still appeared spacious on camera!

Of course, that's not to say that we in any way dislike Friday Night Dinner - it's just not quite what we'd been sold, and hasn't won us round yet.