Did we like it?

No. So don’t bother with a series, please, BBC1. If this was meant to be a British version of Monk, it failed. More Junk than Monk.

What was good about it?

• Sanjeev Bhaskar does his best as beleaguered, boneheaded, blundering private eye Vic Chopra – he’s always great to watch – but, unlike his earlier works Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at No 42, this was a comedy with no jokes.

• It’s good that Britain’s Asian community is represented in a primetime drama, but there was nothing new revealed. We’d seen all the references before in the Kumars (nagging mum, lovely food etc)

• Omid Djalili’s cameo as overweight Turkish baker Ali who was the subject of Vic’s big case – he’d been hired by Ali’s wife to ensure he took his medicine.

• Vic being forced to take his baby daughter on a surveillance operation was quite amusing.

What was bad about it?

• Not funny enough. Lame plots. Attempts to parody gumshoe classics fell flat.

• Natalie Casey as temp Annie, who becomes Chopra’s assistant (against his wishes), should have played the part with subtlety. She didn’t. Neil Stuke was even worse as the bumbling cop.

• The “jokey” sub-plot about the the theft of “a gay cow who thinks he’s a pig”. Were the culprits the Hindu Liberation Front? No. All they do is take elderly Hindus out on day trips