COMEDY
UNDER PRESSURE 999 call handlers hear it all
BBC1, 8.30pm Lee Mack’s award-winning series bows out with another gag-filled episode.
You can see from the odd wry smile that Lee and Sally Bretton (who plays wife Lucy) occasionally struggle not to break out into laughter mid-scene.
Tonight’s episode, like most of the others, is essentially a 30-minute argument between the bickering husband and wife.
After a withering put-down from a shop assistant in a department store, Lucy begins to feel self-conscious C4, 9pm
THE emergency services certainly sees Britain warts and all – at its most drunk, most reckless, vulnerable or in great danger.
about the size of her breasts. Complaining to Anna (Abigail Cruttenden), she ponders: “Boob jobs are for vain, insecure types with more money than sense.” Of course, Anna then admits she’s had one.
The jokes here are easily spotted from a distance, but there’s a certain joy in knowing what’s coming.
What follows then is a lively debate, littered with puns and innuendo, as Lucy considers having the operation.
Unfortunately, Lee is not on board – until he accidentally sees something he shouldn’t have.