We may be biased because it stars the host of this years Empire Awards, Bill Bailey, but Black Books despite that BAFTA is perhaps the great overlooked sitcom of the last few years, easily deserving as much praise as Spaced and Father Ted.
Wilfully surreal and filled with a healthy contempt for humankind, this second series pitches co-writer Dylan Morans bitter bookstore owner, Bernard Black, and his scruffy assistant, Manny (Bailey), into various baffling situations a holiday in an airport, for one and loads them up with biting one-liners and original sight gags.
Theres no character development here, but when the gags are this good, who cares?