Next Of Kin

And I watched the first episode of Next of Kin (BBC1) where Ms Keith, having doubtless considered the hundreds of different ways she might enact Maggie (her latest role), had yet again opted for the persona of a snooty, humourless, unemotional bossyboots. [...] No one expects, or even desires a sitcom to be true to life - if we wanted realism we'd all have mirrors in our rooms instead of TV sets - but the minimum requirements are surely escapism and entertainment. Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie's pitiful script provided neither, merely ineptly cashing in on the current vogue for Third-Age sitcoms pioneered by the excellent One Foot In The Grave.