Trip or Treat

Why aren't more of you people watching Tripping Over? For the first time in many years, here's a show about young adults not brimming with rubbish sex gags like Two Pints of Lager or two-dimensional blondes and rubbish drug and gangster storylines ala Hollyoaks. In fact, this is the first programme to credit twentysomethings with a modicum of intelligence since This Life. And yet nobody's tuning in.

Within two episodes, Tripping Over has introduced its characters and storylines so effortlessly we already care for the characters (even those played by Two Pints of Lager refugees) and the plethora of plots involving depression, parentage, homosexuality and death are treated without the sensationalism we are accustomed. Perhaps it's the Australian side of the production, playing down the tabloid-baiting elements to focus on the more minute human drama.

Tripping Over is perhaps the best (semi) British drama of the year and, sadly, it'll probably get another chance to prove itself as thus. Please watch.