A supposedly surprising sitcom based upon the very modern idea of a couple of twenty-somethings sharing a flat: 'Spaced' sounded as if it should feel fresh and original. But in fact the set up feels very familiar: the landlord (in this case, actually a landlady) lives under the same roof as her collection of sexually inadequate, loser tenants; although the permutations are different, 'Spaced' really doesn't feel so completely different from 'Rising Damp'. The one original quirk is that jokes are often followed up by vividly unreal exaggerations showing us what the characters really think. But this was done with more style in 'Dream On' and in this case, far from adding to the original joke, seems more to labour the point - this isn't the sort of comedy whose humour is allowed to nearly escape you. In some senses, these visual plays are more the equivalent of a laughter track - something to tell the audience to laugh. The odd line made me smile, but overall, I prefer a bit more realism in my comedy; there's no real bite when the characters are drawn so thin.