[Eric]

Thanks, Galatea92 for mentioning the name Andy Hamilton. I'd not heard it before in this context. I had no idea he was the same one as the diminutive and witty man on Have I Got News For You.

The kids are very good indeed. I saw last night the "fundamentalist" scene about God blowing up planes, that you mentioned. (We in the Netherlands can watch BBC1 and BBC2 on the cable.) I'd missed the initial screening.

The adult actors presumably just react as any parents might. But the result is very funny, as well as moving, sometimes. The old codger plays his role well, too (the actor born 1935).

It is hard to believe that Ramona Marquez was born in 2001! The posh and typical clever-little-missy things she comes out with just couldn't have been scripted. The dreadful Ben is also well-played by Daniel Roche.

I have very little contact with children, having none of my own. But I have seen the six-year-old daughter of friends of mine who is beginning to play the piano, can do nice dance steps, and handled the wiggly tooth crisis (the two front milk teeth were hanging on a string) with great aplomb. So I know that children can be amazingly developed in some ways at the age of six-seven. It gives you hope for the future.

I'm glad that there are still people who write comedies that are funny and are not just bouts of 30-year-old adolescent boys showing-off, romping, swearing and cracking tasteless jokes, as can happen of QI and even on Have I Got News For You.

For me, Outnumbered is genuinely one of the most pleasant sitcoms I've seen on TV for quite a while.