Tourist Trap

It's one of those program that should of been good and sadly it is very far from good. Think of the office but minus the humour or clever people politics side. We need comedies set in Wales but this isn't it.

It's far from genius, but the cast is good and it's refreshing to see a BBC comedy that at least raises a few laughs - and to see one of Britain's 'Celtic nations' able to laugh at itself. Catch Scotland doing that! I'm afraid the Ronnie Ancona character is all too accurate....

As for the Office, it's no more an Office clone than The Office cloned I'm Alan Partridge or The Royle Family; 'fly on the wall' is an established sitcom style now. It's much more like 2012 and W1A, but better I think.

It's just - not funny. It's cringeingly unfunny. Now I am told by the site that those two sentences is "too short" to be a review. But sadly I think those two sentences says all that needs to be said about such an embarrassing attempt at being anything that could qualify as part of a "Festival of Funny". It isn't!

Derivative and not at all funny. Has a sort of fly on the wall approach where most characters know they are being filmed and play up to the camera. But in other scenes we're supposed to believe that the characters are unaware of the cameras. It just distant work. I can see why people see a parallel to the office, but poor office derivatives are themselves passé and this one is exceptionally poor. It's a shame. Wales does have a lot to offer but this comedy won't do it any favours. I have to say more to be able to submit this review and the show doesn't merit more. So I'll just write nothing to fill in this space.

Having previously worked for the Welsh tourist board, I'm wondering if one of the writers did, too...! Funny performances from home-grown talent.