Totally Wrong

The Wrong Door (2008-2009)

0.5 Stars

Anyone who knows my comic tastes is aware of my adoration for Mr Matt Berry, star of such cult classics as Garth Merenghi's Dark Place, Snuff Box and of course The IT Crowd. Indeed when I happened across Mr Berry on Carnaby Street last year, I was so overcome by awe that I forgot to ask for an autograph, let alone a photograph. But I did meet him. Honest. And he was beautiful.

As such, when I heard that Mr Berry had appeared in a prior-to unheard of by myself BBC3 sketch show by the name of The Wrong Door, I was drawn to it like a moth to a bonfire. Unfortunately, quite frankly, it's shit.

The Wrong Door, it appears was originally a CBBC pitch, which did not get picked up, so they threw in some damningly unfunny puerility to "appeal to an older audience". And the result is a thirty minute yawn, spattered with already dated (and only one year on) CGI effects, that the producers clearly thought would disguise the utter boredom that seeps from the "comic" material.

Usually, I am quite tickled by obscure humour, but there's obscure and there's just boring. A clear attempt at jumping on the bandwagon of the aforementioned shows, but lesson learned; "wackiness" does not equal funny. The half a star goes to Mr Berry for his four second cameo as a snooker player which just about raised a shadow of a smirk.

Please BBC3, let's try a little harder shall we? Or will we be running repeats of Little Miss Jocelyn again this Spring?