VBP brings out the armchair comedian in everyone

A new television series chronicling Very British Problems has sparked plenty of conversation online as to what qualifies for the unique status.

A series that shows self-deprecating Britishness isn't solely the preserve of Grumpy Old Men repeats on Dave. VBP wheels out reliable talking heads (Vic Reeves, Nigel Havers, Stephen Mangan) to anatomise various points of British difficulty, and this week, it's social awkwardness. Air kissing. Hugs. Reflex apologies. All are fraught with difficulty and embarrassment. As for having a nice day, you shouldn't suggest that to Nigel Havers. "I'm having a very nasty day," he says. "But it's nothing to do with you."

Why you should follow... @SoVeryBritish

If you apologise a lot, feel socially awkward buying sandwiches and think signing off an email with "thanks" conveys your rage, Very British Problems is the Twitter account for you, especially now there's a TV show about it...

Very British Problems, Channel 4, review: 'a mistake'

This old-fashioned list show about awkward social situations forgot to be funny, says Michael Hogan.

Very British Problems, TV review

Not every observation was as original as it might have been and not every contributor as witty as you'd hope, but Very British Problem #342 should still be added to the list: the embarrassment of having to admit you found a talking-heads show really quite amusing, after years of publicly disdaining them.

How one man's Twitter feed became a TV show

I meet the London-based creator of @soverybritish, Rob Temple, to find out how the TV show is going to work and, to be honest, exactly how it all got this far.

Dear Channel 4, please don't ruin Very British Problems

Twitter accounts turned TV shows have a bad track record.