The Way It Is

I enjoyed The Way It Is, although it did rely on a lot of repetition (and not just the regular sketch which relied on repetition). I liked the ending of the final episode which spoofed the "it was all a dream" get-out. A juvenile Simon Evans, woken by his "mummy," describes his dream of being involved in a comedy news show; she asks whether it was as good as his The Day Today dream. No, he replies, but it was a lot better than his Weekending dream ...

Incidentally, there was at the very least a TV pilot of The Way It Is. It was okay, but the presentation wasn't terribly imaginative - in the light of The Day Today I can see why it wasn't commissioned.