This is Jinsy

[Jonesy]

started on Sky Atlantic last night. Kicked off with a double bill. I thought it was funny as feck once I got my head round it after the first 5 mins.

 

this is what the mirror had to say about

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/columnists/todays-tv/2011/09/19/this-is-jinsy-sky-atlantic-10-10pm-10-40pm-115875-23430022/

 

 

 

This Is Jinsy (pic: Sky)

 

WORDS can’t adequately describe this gloriously eccentric new British sitcom – you’ll just have to see it for yourself.

 

But imagine Monty Python, The League of Gentlemen, George Orwell’s 1984 and An Island Parish in a blender – along with some spectacularly cheap scenery – and you’ll start to get an idea.

 

It’s written by and stars the previously unknown pair of Chris Bran and Justin Chubb (where have they been all our lives?), and is set on the tiny fictional island of Jinsy.

 

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The island is dotted with devices called tesselators that look like those money-in-the slot viewing machines you find on the end of the pier.

 

These act as two-way CCTV, where folk can see what’s going on and also be spied on by the island’s fussy arbiter Maven and his assistant Sporall.

 

The constant flow of surreal ideas and sight gags lends this a sketch-show quality in parts.

 

There are hilarious folk songs, photo-copying owls and Harry Hill in drag as Joon Boolay presenting the island’s weekly Punishment Round-up.

 

But in the first episode of tonight’s double bill, the big draw sees guest star David Tennant playing local celebrity Mr Slightlyman – the master of the balls in the regular wedding lottery.

 

Peter Serafinowicz is just as fabulous as an evangelical cupboard salesman in the second episode.

 

A pilot for This Is Jinsy was screened on BBC Three in March last year, but they foolishly failed to pick it up for a full series and it’s now on Sky Atlantic.

 

The show is directed by Matt Lipsey of Psychoville and Little Britain fame.

 

Well, I hope BBC Three is kicking itself right now because this has got cult classic written all over

 

 

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