This concept has so much potential but it is squandered with uncharismatic leads with characters you barely care about. Despite the fantasy setting the bulk of the stories revolve around scams, the main character wanting to get home and the patheticness of the characters. The few interesting characters are an occasional side character who appears for an episode at most. Very skippable.

Very silly characters, very silly plots, very funny. Love it!

The only thing worse than a show that doesn't make sense is a supposed comedy that isn't funny. So James Buckley gets transported to parallel universe by wearing a bracelet that was being shipped in that universe but somehow ended up at his house. Seriously, that's the premise. I knew I should have stopped watching at that point but I didn't. I made the mistake of trying to give this show a chance and five episodes in it hasn't gotten any better. I don't mind that it doesn't make sense, I can deal with that. It's harder to forgive it for not being funny. To make things even worse the running story line is him trying to get home. Which we know won't happen. Even sadder is that they always open with his former co-workers being glad he's gone and foreshadowing his return. And the parallel universe is just silly. It's the middle ages with a bunch of weird animals but they all use modern day British slang. I see that a lot of people here compare it to Red Dwarf which is funny for two reasons. First, Red Dwarf sucked so that explains why this sucks but more importantly, why would you want an unoriginal show? I wish I had more hands so I could give this show four thumbs down.

I stumbled upon this on Dave after watching the latest series of Red Dwarf and I'm so glad I did as this is like watching a touch of sliders with a huge portion of Discworld. Expertly acted and excellent comedy delivery , I haven't found a single thing that needs improving. What really add to it is the varied range of actors such as James Buckley ( Inbetweeners ) Paul Kaye ( you may remember him as Dennis Pennis), Ricky Grover ( normally plays Gangsters. If you like Discworld you will love this and if you don't , well I still think you will love it. It has that quick firing gag delivery that used to be a big part of British comedy , extremely recommended