Stella

I think the real reason Sky 1's new 'comedy drama' is called Stella is because you have to drink six pints of it to make it through the show. It is what you could call an Un programme. It is uninvolving, unfunny and undramatic. 

Written by and starring Ruth Jones, this is a million miles from Gavin and Stacy. While that wasn't the funniest show in the world, it had a warmth and you liked the characters. Stella threw too many characters at us in it's, far too long, hour and none of them desperately that likable. Pontyberry seems like one of those comforting television villages, where everyone has problems, but they all stick together to solve them. There's horses in the street and fantastic scenery all around so if you tone down the Shamelessesque themes a little we are a whisker away from cosy Sunday night television here.

So with James Cordon and now Ruth Jones in the Sky camp what next, Matthew Horne doing the complete works of Shakespeare?

Sky's home grown drama is starting to make the ITV look like HBO. And now we have Mad Dogs 2 on the horizon. The first series seriously ran out of ideas after three episodes. Let's hope it can stay involving for the entire series this tme. Fingers crossed.

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