Iain Connell and Robert Florence showed great promise as scriptwriters at the start of their careers when they provided material for 'Chewin' The Fat'. In 2007, they decided to try their hands at sitcom and wrote a sitcom about dodgy market traders entitled 'Legit' which was then followed up a year later with a sitcom about property maintenance workers entitled 'Empty'. In 2009. they decided to return to the sketch show format and created 'Burnistoun', only this time, as well as writing it, they acted in it as well. Unfortunately, the net result just did not cut it with me. Along with 'Limmy's Show' and 'Gary - Tank Commander', it is easily one of the worst television shows in recent years.
There is no logic to the sketches at all, and the characters ( especially those bloody annoying ice cream van proprietors ) all look like rejects from 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'. The obvious canned laughter does not help either. I did laugh though at the sketch in which a man attempts to buy rolls from a corner shop where the assistant has the repetitive job of telling him they have run out of rolls. When a young attractive woman comes in to ask for some rolls, his response is: ''Aye, we've hundreds of them. I'll take you over to them!''.
Three series were made, the final episode was a Christmas special which ended in 2016. It is a mystery to me how it stretched as far as one series, let alone three!
There is no logic to the sketches at all, and the characters ( especially those bloody annoying ice cream van proprietors ) all look like rejects from 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'. The obvious canned laughter does not help either. I did laugh though at the sketch in which a man attempts to buy rolls from a corner shop where the assistant has the repetitive job of telling him they have run out of rolls. When a young attractive woman comes in to ask for some rolls, his response is: ''Aye, we've hundreds of them. I'll take you over to them!''.
Three series were made, the final episode was a Christmas special which ended in 2016. It is a mystery to me how it stretched as far as one series, let alone three!