This Is Jinsy

Harry Hill in drag for This Is Jinsy

What are the chances of this happening - Harry Hill dressed like a laydee?

Emma Kennedy interview

This Is Jinsy script editor Emma Kennedy talks about Doctor Who's trousers and dwarf sex.

David Tennant dons gold trousers & hairpiece for Jinsy

David Tennant's turn on This Is Jinsy will see him don gold trousers and a hairpiece, according to the show's script editor.

Surreal comedy often treads a very fine line. While the likes of Eddie Izzard, Reeves & Mortimer and Charlie Chuck are able to invoke seemingly random non sequesters to hilarious effect, many others have tried and failed. The BBC Three pilot This is Jinsy, a fun, low-budget sitcom set on an island community so eccentric and bizarre, it makes Royston Vasey look like Slough, just about manages to raise enough smiles and, in particular, has enough charm to deserve a return for a full series.

Written, directed by and starring Chris Bran and Justin Chubb, and script edited by TV's Emma Kennedy, This is Jinsy is by no means perfect, and certainly doesn't reach the heights of its predecessor on the channel, The Mighty Boosh. The pilot's story, about extending the "tessellators" (strange televisions/cameras throughout the island, like something from Orwell's 1984) to the tribe-inhabited Old Jinsy was full of many more clichés than you'd expect from such an outlandish concept, and many of the plot developments and punchlines could be seen a mile off. But it still managed to win me over, thanks to Bran and Chubb's affable performances, some fun songs and some very funny moments along the way.

Jinsy Report #5

DAILY GREET! Today's the final day of joyous japes commemorating 40 glorious cycles of The Great He (Jinsy Praise Him!). Unfortunately the Hands-across-Jinsy event, in which the entire island was due to link hands around the coast, has been cancelled due to an outbreak of Clammy Hand Flu. Residents should now bend quietly in the Innoculation Booths at Rintels Point and brace themselves for Nurse Bryan.

Jinsy Report #4

View the launch of a new product by entrepreneur Jerarard Fyson over at the Fysonian Institute (formerly known as 'Smelly Barn').

Jinsy Report #3

Daily Greet!

All this week on Jinsy it's 'Yeller-fest', where meal paks purchased through tessellators cost only 1 YELLOW! An exhibition of Olde Food is on display at the Gilolay Bookery, where residents can sample foods from the past, including a bit of toast left over from the signing of the Parish Charter, half a sausage, thought to have belonged to writer and critic Copey Fordd, and a smear of cheese found under the left armpit of the statue of Candi Wren, the island's first erotic mime act.

Jinsy Report #2

Daily Greet! Today in the Hut on Nancy Pier, local folk dribbler Melody Lane is signing copies of her latest cartridge, Four Golden Grates.