• Sitting in a gentle Canadian space somewhere between The Strange Calls, Hunderby and The League of Gentlemen, Cavendish had a decent opener which paved the way in terms of characters and plotlines for subsequent episodes.

    I notice some people taking offence to a lack of research on the real Cavendish location which quite misses the point of surreal comedy.

    My only niggle was that Kevin Eldon, a stalwart of British comedy shows, is nibbling the furniture a little too much and could afford to rein it in a little.