NEW COMEDY
Everyone Else Burns
Thursday, 10pm & 10.30pm, C4 (box set, Channel 4)
They say ‘the family that prays together, stays together’. However, in the household of David Lewis (The Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird), husband, father-of-two and member of a puritanical religious sect, that is looking increasingly doubtful as Manchester-set comedy Everyone Else Burns returns.
As we rejoin the Lewis clan, attitudes to love and marriage within the order come under the spotlight when daughter Rachel (Amy James-Kelly) agrees to choose a husband from within the church, a move that prompts David’s wife Fiona (Kate O’Flynn) to reassess how suited she and her husband are as life partners.
‘For Fiona, that makes her question the last 20 years of her life,’ explains Bird. ‘Which is fair enough, because David is…