Après Broadchurch - Vicious!

[Northender]

I would say, on the basis of the 10 minutes that I watched, that it was even worse than you might have been led to expect by the trailers. Embarrassingly, wincingly awful.

[Serial_Apologist]

The programme seems to have gone down pretty well on the whole with forum members, then!

[Mary Chambers]

I watched the second episode, and found it much better - I laughed several times. If you regard it as a sort of parody of earlier sitcoms it makes better sense. There were some good lines, and a certain level of pathos I didn't notice in the first episode. Still not wonderful, but definitely an improvement. I'll keep watching, I think.

[Mr Pee]

I watched the second episode, and found it much better - I laughed several times. If you regard it as a sort of parody of earlier sitcoms it makes better sense. There were some good lines, and a certain level of pathos I didn't notice in the first episode. Still not wonderful, but definitely an improvement. I'll keep watching, I think.

I'm afraid the first episode was so excruciatingly bad that it put me off completely, so I didn't bother with the second. It will be interesting to see how the viewing figures hold up over the course of the run....not terribly well, I would think.

[amateur51]

I watched the second episode, and found it much better - I laughed several times. If you regard it as a sort of parody of earlier sitcoms it makes better sense. There were some good lines, and a certain level of pathos I didn't notice in the first episode. Still not wonderful, but definitely an improvement. I'll keep watching, I think.

I agree Mary There was some nice character development and the young man Ash is growing into the most likeable of the lot. I'll stick with it

[gurnemanz]

I'm afraid the first episode was so excruciatingly bad that it put me off completely, so I didn't bother with the second. It will be interesting to see how the viewing figures hold up over the course of the run....not terribly well, I would think.

It dropped 2 million for the second episode but still got more than Rocket Ronnie. We were out and didn't watch either.

[Nick Armstrong]

I watched the second episode, and found it much better - I laughed several times.

Only the first of those things applies for me, I'm afraid.

Gave it another chance, but not a laugh in the show. It was a better experience in that it was less of a disappointment, though.

IMcK's the better of the two leads, I think - Derek Jacobi just seems to be delivering the same vocal mannerisms time after time, ditto flappy hand gestures... I can only just bear to watch it, it's so sad somehow. The actress playing the absent-minded old lady is the best of the lot.

[Barbirollians]

Marcia Warren is stealing the show . She was superb in a radio play Tony and Rose yesterday on Radio 4 too.

[jean]

And in the recent stage version of the Ladykillers.

[eighthobstruction]

Marcia Warren is stealing the show . She was superb in a radio play Tony and Rose yesterday on Radio 4 too.

That was a very touching piece of work I thought....plenty of range for the listener to contemplate their own feelings as it went on....yes, made very real by the two main characters. I'm not a great lover of R4 Afternoon play but this was an exceptional work....and very simple in it's dramatic dynamic for all that....

[amateur51]

Well, it appears that I am more in sympathy with Peter Fincham than most on here

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/23/itv-commissions-new-series-vicious

[Mr Pee]

Well, it appears that I am more in sympathy with Peter Fincham than most on here

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...series-vicious

Good Lord. He must have taken leave of his senses.