Airdate: Lunch Monkeys

ABC2 will air UK comedy series Lunch Monkeys, which premiered on BBC Three in 2009.

The series is set in the administration department of fictional personal injury law firm of Fox Cranford. It stars Nigel Havers (Brothers And Sisters) and Sian Reeves (Hope Springs, Cutting It and Northern Lights) with Steve John Shepherd (This Life) alongside several newcomers.

The series was written by David Isaac, who was inspired by his own experience of being a supervising solicitor in a Manchester law firm. His other writing credits includes Scallywagga and Not Going Out.

Lunch Monkeys is a six-part knockabout sitcom series about the bad attitudes of a bunch of surly school leavers in their first jobs at a personal injury law firm.

They continually mess things up in the postal room of Fox Cranford – as do their superiors, office manager Gloria (Sian Reeves), and senior partner, Mike Cranford (Nigel Havers).

Lunch Monkeys will strike a chord with anyone who’s tried to order paperclips from the office postal room.

Nigel Havers adds a touch of style and one of the nicest things about this new comedy series is that it doesn’t have an idiot laughter track.

Tonight, Gloria reckons Fox Cranford is understaffed and introduces new girl Shelley, (Rachel Rae) to the team. Shelley’s induction is left to Darrel (Chris Hannon), the longest-serving member of the admin team.

Meanwhile, indie kid Kenny (Christian Foster) is in love with blonde colleague Tania (Jessica Hall) but she seems to have fallen pregnant to slimy love-rat solicitor, Charlie (Steve John Shepherd).

Tania tells Asif (Abdullah Afzal) her secret but he doesn’t know if he should tell Kenny, his closest mate in the postal room.

Shelley fails to make a good impression on her first meeting with Mike Cranford and things get worse when she takes a two hour lunch break to get a tattoo.

It premieres 9pm Monday June 28 on ABC2.