Hartmann Payne investment bank caters for the needs of the rich and super rich. It's also the home to a group of brilliant, sexy, funny and confused Personal Assistants (PAs), whose jobs involve far more than just organising meetings and making coffee. Such as Grace Darling, the perfect PA, whose boss is in love with her, and Lucy, frustrated in her role making millions for her boss' clients while he takes the credit.

An extraordinary event in the opening episode is just the starting point for a mystery that reverberates across the series and promises to have viewers questioning what happened, who is responsible and what the dark secrets are that lurk beneath the bright lights of the city.

Our Review: This was a brave attempt to create a very light-hearted comedy drama mixed together with a dark mystery thriller. Looking back, it was frankly never going to quite work and thus perhaps not a surprise that it found itself on the end of many negative reviews.

Personally, we've found it very hard indeed to review this show. You see, just 30 minutes into the first episode we had to give up watching - we found it just un-bearably bad. We never have managed to build up the courage to watch the other 4.5 hours, so can't say whether it got any better or not.

In the half hour we did see, the plot has us so baffled it hurt, the wooden acting (with dodgy accents) angered us immensely, the shallow characters alienated us completely, and the lack of realism (characters having sex in the office left, right and centre) completely blew what little interest we had in whether they all lived or died. Frankly, it was one of the most painful thirty minutes we've had to endure in the name of this website. BUT...

It should be noted that those of us reviewing this show for the website were male. Personal Affairs clearly isn't aimed at us, so we do concede we might be missing something, after all, we also hate Sex And The City... but that is immensely popular with a lot of fans.