Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled review

I adored this new show and the many guests on it.

TV review: Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

The bottom line is that the format works, even if an hour's running time does stretch it to its limits. The guests are well chosen, the atmosphere is relaxed and the anecdotes are very, very funny.

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled - Review

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best, and Dave have found a winning formula here. The only frustration is that five episodes stripped across a week means it feels like it's over before it began.

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, TV review

Brilliant bar-room-style show consistently delivers.

Blazing trails

There is always a fine line between appropriation and copying.

Alan Davies on his new show

Alan Davies's new show kicks off on Dave this week. But when it comes to telling you what it's all about, we're a little stumped.

What's the new Alan Davies show all about?

Alan Davies has a new Dave show... but it doesn't have a title.

There's the obvious danger that Alan Davies's new show could quickly descend into a swaggering knob-measuring contest, featuring as it does four celebrities talking about whatever they want to around a big table in front of a studio audience, until an appropriate show title presents itself. And indeed, the anecdotes come thick and fast in this first instalment, from Noel Fielding, Kerry Godliman, Andrew Maxwell and Jon Ronson. However, it's actually rather charming, Ronson's mistaken identity story in particular.

Radio Times review

If you've ever wondered what it'd be like going for a pint with Noel Fielding, Jon Ronson, Kerry Godliman and Andrew Maxwell (I know I have), here's a chance to find out.

With no agenda, no theme and a trickle of booze, this blank-canvas chat show aims to re-create the informal intimacy of a pub conversation, and it works really well.

Alan gives his guests plenty of room to waffle, and Noel Fielding is excellent value as usual; particularly with the story about how he disappeared on tour, and was found the following day working in a vintage boutique in Brighton.