Ardal: actors queued up to replace Ted

Comedian Ardal O'Hanlon has revealed that there were actors lining up to become Father Ted in the aftermath of Dermot Morgan's sudden death.

Guesting this week on the cheap-but-effective comedy discussion show are the reliable Mark Watson and the refreshingly unreliable Ardal O'Hanlon. Topics include the semi-serious ("Barak Obama can only disappoint us") and the deadly serious ("Doctor Who is rubbish")

No Heroics is a sitcom about superheroes, set mainly in a bar where they all sit around drinking too much, talking about sex, and revealing their deep personal inadequacies. It is quite a nice idea, certainly a much better idea than My Hero, the one with Ardal O'Hanlon as Thermoman, but so far Drew Pearce's script is too ready to fall back on the drink and the sex every time it needs a laugh. It needs a good script editor to sort it out.