Fags, Mags And Bags

A second six-part series of that United Nations of Accents set in the shopping area of Glasgow. Not that Glasgow itself lends any atmosphere to the show, but it does explain the number of Scots appearing alongside English types of various geographical provenance, and several Indians.

But the action of Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary's sitcom is hardly site-specific - instead it dwells in a slightly surreal world of non sequitors and one-liners, of jokes that stumble over each other in their urge to be heard, of gentle puns and mundane, everyday phrases rendered hilarious by context and fine acting. Plot? Well, in this first in a new series there's a missing cat and the problem of telling Brian the cobbler that he smells terrible. But you don't come here for the story, you come for the sheer joy of hearing clever people having fun with words.