Shane

Now before i get started don't think i am biased towards Frank Skinner because he is from the same city as me.

I thought Shane wasn't a bad sitcom not brilliant and it wont be remembered as a classic but I thought it was a damn good attempt. Frank himself is not the greatest of actors but he tries his best and his great supporting cast covers up his lack of acting experience. The script was pretty good and and at times is very clever and witty. All in all i would rate it a 6.5/10 I would have gave it a seven but because the sitcom was on ITV (and we all know ITV's drab history of sitcoms eg 'Sam's Game 'Babes in the Wood') It spoils it just a little.

I'm really enjoying this series. Very talented cast, with Skinner well supported by the excellent young actor Tony Bignell, who displays great comic timing.

Kelly Scott looks to have a big career ahead of her as she excellently plays Shane's pretty late-teens daughter Velma, while Schneider, Norris and Berrington assist Skinner with their experience as comic actors.

The jokes are funny, the actors give good performances as likeable characters and the plots are amiable enough. Good, light-hearted entertainment; there is certainly space on the market for good quality sitcoms such as this.

This is dreadful. How much further can Skinner fall? I thought he was one of the funniest people in Britain at the time of Fantasy Football and his live shows of that era. His "chat" show saw him going soft and buddying up to cretinous b-grade celebs, and now this...

Basically, it's his stand-up act CRAMMED into a sitcom format. The other characters exist merely to mouth strange convoluted non-sequiturs which we then realize are the feed-lines for Frank's "gags". All they're short of is a red flag and a bullhorn to shout "INCREDIBLY PALLID JOKE COMING!"

There's misogyny, homophobia, a script so weak you feel like asking it to have a lie-down, and acting performances that would be embarrassing in a school play. (Re Frank's Family: Memo to sitcom writers - KIDS CAN'T ACT! Get it through your thick skulls!)

The son is particularly aggravating - one of those kids that only exist in TV land, always making with the pithy one-liners, delivered deadpan but with a peculiar squint, like his shoes are pinching or something.

Frank, get back to basics. ITV seem to be trying to get rid of this stinker as quickly as possible (three episodes on consecutive nights this week) - Frank should follow suit and do what he does best.

Well there's only other actually, called Blue heaven. There's a lot of snobbery in some of the comments made here about this programme. It does NOT claim to be the most original thing since sliced bread. Those who say there is no real plot are correct. It is a bit on the crude side BUT it is really really funny and appeals to my simple sense of humour. Conffession time....Frank comes from my part of the world and supports the same football team. I do, however, like all of his programmes and this is no exception. It is NOT an all time classic, but like someone else has commented I like way a joke continues throughout the episode. I also really like the episode when he has the night vision goggles.

SHANE has to be one of the worst sitcoms of all time. Skinner is about as funny as a hangover on a hot day. Is that how to write a sitcom, just line up a load of schoolboy one-liners and attempt to write them into the dialogue. Who are the executives at ITV who commission such dire rubbish and why are they still employed.

It is bad when we have to suffer such bad attempts at comedy but ITV always end up with the BBC and Channel 4 "has beens" although in Frank's case a "never was". But good luck to Skinner for front, he certainly has no artistic pride in whatever he seems to be invoved in, he may be a decent bloke but as a comedian and writer he stinks.

The trade descriptions people should prosecute Frank Skinner and the ITV producers for stealing prime time entertainment slots. If Skinner and ITV had got their comedy timing right, SHANE would have gone out at 2am in the morning so as to ensure a bit of sleep for the insomniacs.