Moray Hunter

Panel of Experts: Still absolutely inspired

Five members of the 1990s sketch show Absolutely - Gordon Kennedy, Pete Baikie, Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter and John Sparkes - look back at their old selves in their second series

Give me the ads any day

However, now that I'm back, the normal abysmal level of service seems to have been resumed, if Friday night's edition of The Creatives (BBC2) was anything to go by. Those who still remember the execrable Mr Don and Mr George will be astounded that Jack Docherty and Moray Hunter have been allowed to script a sitcom again, and the really bad news is that they've not only written this dire series, about an Edinburgh advertising agency, but are appearing in it, too.

Similarly, I suspect it's only a matter of time before Seamus Cassidy, Channel 4's commissioning editor for comedy, holds a press conference to admit that he is, in fact, an ex bingo-caller who knows nothing about comedy. Certainly, the number of genuinely amusing programmes he's commissioned over the past four years can be counted on the fingers of a mitten. What else could explain the lamentable standard of his department's output, which reached a new nadir last night with Mr. Don and Mr. George (C4)?

Absolutely fabulous. Not.

Baikie, Banks, Docherty, Hunter, Kennedy & Sparkes. Who? The comics from Absolutely tell Jim White why they're basking in obscurity.