Joe Lycett's Got Your Back

Consumer rights shows are hardly riveting telly - but Joe Lycett is one of the most strangely charismatic and right-on comedians of recent years and his mix of sass, wild confidence and genuine irritation make this a solid watch.

The first series is quite a bit sharper than the second and third as they decided the format needed to be longer (it doesn't), that he needed more comedian helpers (he didn't). Further to that, and I imagine as a result of the pandemic, the final episode of the second series is given over to a flaccid clipshow which was weirdly marketed as containing "behind the scenes and new material" and doesn't at all. The irony in a consumer rights show failing to live up to their own marketing isn't lost on me SO I'M GOING TO WRITE A STRONGLY WORDED BUT DEEPLY SARCASTIC LETTER (I won't).

At its best however Joe Lycett's Got Your Back is a long overdue and deftly silly confrontation of the real villains within contemporary society (rogue letting agents, indifferent corporations and exploitative middle-men) which is occasionally extraordinarily satisfying even long into the third series.