Karl Howman

Three girlies and their 'laddish' neighbour all live in St John's Wood. Lamentable ITV sitcom from 1998 starring Karl Howman (the geezer from the Flash ads who was Jacko in equally pathetic 1980s comedy Brush Strokes). The 'babes' included a pre-EastEnders Samantha Janus and Denise Van Outen. It had absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. About as funny as nailing your own foot to the floor.

Babes In The Wood (ITV) is about three gorgeous blonde babes who live in St John's Wood - which is, if the residents will forgive me, not a particularly hip or happening area of north-west London. [...] This is unassuming, unpretentious but predictable comedy, with a little bit of Friends and a dollop of Man About The House, with Karl Howman in the eunuch Richard O'Sullivan role.