Not Safe For Work, Tuesdays, Channel 4, 10pm

NOW mid-way through its run, Channel 4's new comedy drama Not Safe For Work is well worth catching up with for those yet to sample its often farcical public sector workplace-based charms.

Featuring a great lead performance from Zawe Ashton as recently-exiled-to-Northampton-from-London civil servant Katherine, the show is set in an Immigration Pathway department that's been run into the ground by loveable yet highly incompetent drug dustbin Danny (a brilliant Sacha Dhawa) – or 'Danniyak' as he's known to co-workers, having pretended to be a devout Muslim in order to secure promotion.

Luckily for Britain's immigrant families, Danny and everyone else in the spectacularly ineffective office, Katharine just happens to be quite passionate about immigration policy, and thus sets about trying to pull her former subordinate's chaotic department back from the brink.

The fact that Katherine's ex-lover Anthony (Tom Weston-Jones) also works there further complicates matters, as does the unexpected arrival of human resources manager Jeffries (Anastasia Hille) – also 'sentenced' to Northampton duty in order to carry out a staff cull.

Not Safe For Work plays like a darkly humorous cross between The Office, Shameless and '90s series This Life, and real public sector workers are likely to find its workplace-based satire cringe-inducingly accurate.

Hopefully, it will do well enough for a second series to be commissioned.

:: Catch up now via Channel4.com/notsafeforwork