Whose Family?

[singlepic=12,320,240,,right]Popular critic-baiting sitcom My Family has been commissioned for a further two series, ensuring that the Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wanamaker-starring comedy remains on our screens until 2010 at least.

Despite rumours that the two leads refused to record an episode because it was so poorly written, the BBC continue to flog a horse that frankly should have been put out to pasture when the real star, Kris Marshall, left to pursue other projects.

It is reassuring to think that veterans of Lindsay and Wanamaker’s standing are in paid employment – however at the risk of stating the obvious, the series has long since been nothing more but a 30 minute space filler, and the BBC need to be looking at developing new comedy for BBC One that will attract new, younger viewers.