LEE

8.30PM BBC1 You're a stand-up, but the hours are crap and it's going out of fashion. So what now? Do a sitcom, obviously. Rhona Cameron, Paul Whitehouse, Simon Pegg and Dylan Moran have all done it, and now Lee Evans appears in this slightly under-par offering (still, first episode nerves and all that), all interestingly going for the mid-life crisis angle and most not bad. After all, sitcoms are supposed to be funny, and who better to front a comedy than a comedian? Especially since the TV company must get a dis-count with writer/star rolled into one. The only problem I can see with Lee Evans - whose talents are so singular he tragically doesn't seem to belong anywhere (except the movie Funny Bones, in which he was superb) - is that his take on being at a certain stage in life is genuinely depressing. It makes you want to go to the trouble of winding down your affairs and making sure you're in the vicinity of a large cliff by the time you're 39. But there's some good stuff, too, like an excellent scene between a nymphomaniac landlady and the brilliant David Ross as a sweetly nervous letting agent, and Evans with his hands trapped in a radiator like the 'Angel Of The North'.

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