The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret. Image shows from L to R: Alice (Sharon Horgan), Todd Margaret (David Cross). Image credit: RDF Television.

Series 2 due later in 2012

The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret

Series 2 due later in 2012.

Sitcom about a US executive who finds himself out of his depth when he is mistakenly sent to run his company's new UK arm

Strand:
Channel 4 Comedy Showcase 2009
AKA:
Comedy Showcase: The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret
Genre:
Sitcom
Broadcast:
2009 - 2010  (More4 / Channel 4)
Episodes:
7 (pilot + 1 series)
Starring:
David Cross, Sharon Horgan, Will Arnett, John Fortune, Blake Harrison, Sara Pascoe, Colin Salmon
Writers:
David Cross, Shaun Pye
Production:
RDF Television

American Todd Margaret bluffs his way into an apparently great job opportunity, heading up the sales team in his employer's newly established London office. All he has to do is sell a dozen container loads of dodgy Korean energy drink before his psychotic boss visits him in a week. Simple. Apart from the fact that he knows nothing about British culture and nothing about sales. He also only has one employee to assist him, Dave, who is perhaps the most wilfully unhelpful employee ever.

Todd's life is further complicated when he lies continuously to cover his ignorance and spectacularly fails to impress beautiful cafe owner Alice. Dave soon takes full advantage of Todd's situation and chaos ensues.

Our Review: We really enjoyed the pilot of this show. Some aspects did edge towards being a little too farcical, but we liked the premise and characters so were pleased that a full series was commissioned.

Blake Harrison from The Inbetweeners took over the role of Dave from Russell Tovey for the full series as Tovey was unable to commit to the role as filming clashed with Being Human.

The full series was pretty enjoyable as lie-built-on-lie, although annoyingly not all the plot strands were tied up by the end of the last episode.