SITCOM LAUGHS

Lead Balloon, BritBox

JACK DEE has made a whole career out of being a miserable sort — and his character Rick Spleen in this 2000s sitcom, which Dee co-created, serves up plenty of the comedian’s trademark droll misanthropy. The domestic family set-up provides ample opportunity for Spleen, a struggling comic, to vent. Raquel Cassidy (pictured with Dee) plays his exhausted partner, Mel, and Anna Crilly was a fan favourite as Magda, the Spleen family’s

spiky housekeeper.