But the format kind of demands you do. Of course it isn't real, in the same way that of course The Office wasn't real. But the reason The Office worked was because it could have been real, something that cannot be said for LTS. Give Davis a new name, take out the stupid celeb appearances and this is a show about…

Why is Davis playing Warwick Davis? He is everything his character isn't, which is fine except i'm supposed to be watching a documentary about him. The reason Gervais demanded to play Brent was so that people thought it was real. Davis is, alongside Peter Dinklage, the most famous short-actor in the world. By this…

I don't think anyone thanked God, either. Is it an immigration requirement in the US, or does England just make people feel more assured of their own talent?

Some of the episodes weren't all that much about dinner, come to think of it.

'Explicitly Jewish'? I forgot that Friday Night Dinner was about a Jewish family after approximately seventeen seconds.

So Leonard thought 'Leonard's Day' sounded cool. This episode may as well not have happened.

Make that PBS-via-ITV and you've got yourself something true.

Penny needs an acting job, Sheldon needs to get over the no sex' thing, Raj needs to just get on with being gay, Howard needs to get married, Bernadette needs to be the person Howard marries, Leonard needs to get back with Penny (an actress now, lest we forget), Amy needs to be on the receiving end of Sheldon getting…

I haven't even seen it and i'm annoyed…

I think she'd "do" anything if the opportunity arose, but it's not like Penny has been reacting positively to her verbal-advances.

I don't think Amy is gay, she's just keen to experience the girl-friend closeness she has seen and heard about. She's very self-aware, which is Sheldon's problem. She really is the best bit about the show right now. 

For a show that was in so much trouble before Christmas, this episode really worked wonders for the progression of the show. Sheldon became the comic focus again, and his friendship with Leonard was cemented once more with that superb 'Red Dead Redemption' scene. Penny as the mediator is where I think her character…

There was a part of me that wanted Phil to have something wrong with him. MF needs a kick-start, an underlying story that affects the episodes that follow. At the moment i'm watching the same people have the same life week after week. The only person it seems who has the potential to cause real chaos is Haley, and she…

Sorry about that Shakespeare chap.

Hence my use of the past tense - 'had also had a seriously hot girlfriend'.

They had the opportunity to do something with Penny when they finally gave her an acting job. Since then she's hardly featured at all. That would have provided at least half of the required progression the show needs.

I did think there was a great opportunity for Penny and the man-bully to meet, revealing to the man-bully that Leonard not only had a good job but had also had a seriously hot girlfriend. But they didn't do that so…

This show is in one hell of a mess.

Couldn't agree more. For a show that "isn't about dwarves", it spends a remarkable amount of time being about dwarves. It isn't offensive, it just isn't funny either.

The 2nd and 3rd episodes of 'Life's Too Short' have been some of the un-funniest, contrived pieces of television I've seen in years. Dwarves do not make things funnier, and the word 'cunt' does nothing but suggest that Gervais and Merchant think the word 'cunt' is going to offend a token few.