I Genuinely Wanted to Like This....

.....but I found it unnecessarily boorish and lazy. I only made it through 3/4 of the first episode before bailing, I didn't laugh once and found the whole thing humourless. Garvais is on Twitter at the moment accusing people who didn't like the show of hating it because they were offended. Personally, the only offensive thing about Alley Cats was precisely how unfunny it was.

Gervais is now a combination Andy Millman from Extras and Frenchy from The Office; a one trick pony who feels the only way he can get laughs these days is by punching down