Count Abdulla

Great to see this ensemble cast pull together such a well written script in a condensed 6-parter. Yes, many of the cliches about Indians pop-up, over-bearing mother, Indian boy-girl issues ... but having watched the episodes a few times, writer and director have crammed in a lot of funny content here. Perhaps lengthier episodes / or just more episodes would have helped developed the characters further and built up the ending. Each episode plays on classic Asian - English themes: Halloween and Eid clashing, Toff vampires versus Kathy and her working class roots. Particularly loved Shafi, a rough rogue with his heart in the right place and his mate with the bat!

A muslim vampire doctor...thats as funny as it gets.

There are some "jokes" but they are from the 70s. All been done to death many many times before and werent funny the first time around either.

Some social issues do get raised too, but as subtly as a sledghammer, which I expected.

Its a 1 joke tv show because the writer is not a comedy writer. Hes a Cambridge history graduate. Probably a nice guy but not a comedy writer. I guess he got an opportunity and took it, fair enough. But it didnt work this time.

People are scoring it 10 for reasons known only to themselves. 10 means perfection!! Check the shows below and then ask how people scored this a 10???

Curb you enthusiasm 8.8.

Friday night dinner 8.1 Everybody hates Chris 7.5 Fresh prince 7.9 Office UK 8.5 Chappelle show 8.8 Fawlty Towers 8.8 Key & Peele 8.3.

League of Gentlemen 8.4 Inbetweeners 8.4.

Watch 1 episode of Count abdullah and then look at this list and ask yourself how you would score it compared to those shows.

I had nearly stopped watching it at the beginning, but the more episodes I watched the funnier it became. Love the twist at the end of season 1. Hope Season 2 comes soon. I feel in love with the characters. The posh vampires are very annoying and can not wait for something to happen to them. The main characters are brilliant and hilarious. Sometimes the episodes are over the top, but that is what makes it great. Please, please, please bring the next season soon.

The cousin is very annoying and well over the top. The only none vampire character I do not like. Will be interesting to see what happens.

A British/Pakistani GP is bitten by a vampire and hilarity unfortunately doesn't ensue. On the positive side its nice to see a comedy exploring and set in the British/Pakistani community which is much under-represented on our screens.

I'm just not sure this will work for a broadstream ITV audience as its been written in a very niche vein. Its not a patch on C4's 'We are lady parts' - Nida Manzoor's anarchic and irreverent music comedy about a Muslim female punk band, which deservedy won her a Bafta last year.

The script could have been better with more laughs and often seemed more concerned with virtue signalling than being funny.

Might have found a bigger audience on C4 or BBC3 as its main appeal will be to a much younger audience than ITV gets.

Nothing special about the production values and no stand outs in the cast, overall a disappointment - hard to see being re-commissioned.

I watched the entire series before reviewing just to make sure I wasn't missing something good but in the end all I did was waste my time. No good storyline, no real comedy, no big plot twists, and on top of it all it was grossly bigoted and insulting. Just imagine how it would have been received if a bunch of white characters had made so many slurs about brown people, thrown someone out of a party for dressing as a native or stereotyping people even half as much as they constantly did in this series. Not only would it not made it to production, a lot of writers would be fired and probably prevented from ever working again. But apparently in some circles it's okay to trash people as long as they are in the right group. It might have made some people laugh but it won't work in the long run.