Alice Lowe is one of the most gifted comic actresses currently working and one of her more interesting collaborations has been with filmmaker Jacqueline Wright. Their short films include the straight8 films “Stiffy” and “Sticks and Balls” which combine sex and death and sex and golf respectively and the longer, stranger and more unsettlingly beautiful “Out Of The Water”.

I’m delighted to say that they’ve now been able to make a pilot comedy show for BBC3 and, being a pilot, there are two reasons why I urge you to stop whatever it is you’re doing at 11pm on Friday and watch it. Firstly and most importantly, it’s funny and I know ‘cos I saw a preview at the Curzon. Secondly though, being a pilot, they need a good response in order to get a chance to make more.

In a world where usually the only way you can help is by giving money it’s nice to find a situation where you can support two of the most talented, creative and silly people currently working by the simple expedient of staying in and watching the telly. Just imagine if the actual act of watching Children In Need was in some way helpful rather than merely a garish and irritating way to be reminded that you should help? Just imagine if you could solve the problems of the Middle East by settling down to watch Newsnight.

Well, tough, stop dreaming, you can’t. For the most part watching TV is an entirely useless waste of your time. Except on Friday night where you can help convince the BBC to give Jacqueline and Alice some money that they’ll otherwise just waste on yet more episodes of Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps. Now that has to be worth the almost no effort that I’m asking of you…

LifeSpam – BBC 3 – 11pm Friday 23rd January.