I have too much on my hard drive and can't watch something new! Heard wonderful things about it and will catch up with the two series in the future.

Did watch Life is Short and thought it was absolutely terrible. As you say, Warwick Davis just played Ricky Gervais. I didn't even raise a smile let alone laugh until Liam Neeson came on (and then only a smile, no laughs). And that could have been in Extras easily couldn't it? Seen it all before

I wish he'd stop the celebrity cameos. We KNOW he knows famous people. As I tweeted last night: "What's the name for jumping the shark in a post-modern, self-referential way?"

It was tosh.

is just The Office and Extras rolled into one show and adds nothing to either.
The only laugh it got from me was when Neeson asked Gervais and Merchant how Gervais gets away with the dark stuff and they said they didn't know. More Merchant's timing than the knowing gag.

But I didn't laugh once during Rev despite Hollander being excellent.

The weird part about the hour an a half of comedy from BBC2 last night was the amount of AIDS material on both Life Is Short and Frank Skinner.
It wasn't offensive, just a strange coincidence I suppose.

I thought "Life's Too Short" was their 'Joshua Tree.' They either (metaphorically) go off to Berlin and find their 'Achtung Baby,' or keep going and become Simple Minds.

and it was worth the price of entry alone for Olivia Colman's outburst after she finds out she still isn't pregnant. A simply outstanding piece of acting, effortlessly displaying layers of conflicting and competing emotions and feelings in front of the man she loves to bits but whose commitment to the church, that she admires and respects, robs her of the precious time she wants to be able to enjoy with him alone.

Rev was yet again brilliant. I've been a member of an Anglican church for 20 years and although there are obviously aspects which are exaggerated, it feels real but it's very funny at the same time, which no other church comedy has ever achieved, in fact it portrays christians as normal human beings, also a first. I hope they quit while they're ahead, maybe one more series.
Life's Too Short just sounds like Ricky Gervais/David Brent, you can hear him saying the lines. It's the same joke. God 1 Atheists 0...

What's great about Rev is that it's not just about a vicar - it's about every forty-something man uncertain about the course his life's taken him.

Life's Too Short - too similar to Extras, but it still made me laugh. Gervais is coasting, but he's still funnier than most.

Nothing in either would make me rush back to watch more.

was too long, in that it felt like an idea for a 5-10 minute sketch stretched out to half an hour. And there are 5 more episodes. Enjoyed it as a sketch, but before half-way through I started looking at my watch.

But Rev was brilliant. Wonderful script, wonderfully acted, and knows the difference between sentiment and sentimentalism.

It's funny but humane and insightful. The god is the detail there was joke about cauliflower cheese last that just showed the writer had done time in one of Britains religious residential centres.
I love also because unlike most tv comedy its.not about the m edia but some aspect of modern life.sure the media impinges but looking in not looking out like many comedies.
The problem with life is short was the main character seemed one dimensional just sort of loathesome and bitter , Alan partridge without the inner madness and self pity. Maybe we'll see more of this later but there wasn't a lot to make you come back