Viewers have been kept waiting for a second outing of Back, David Mitchell and Robert Webb's bitingly funny Channel 4 sitcom, which returned to our screens at the end of last month. The delay had nothing to do with a lack of commissioning courage - how could anyone find fault with the filth and comic fury of Simon Blackwell's scripts, the ever-watchable Mitchell and Webb or the fantastic ensemble cast? Webb took up the story at a recent RTS event, beginning with a routine insurance medical in autumn 2019, as filming was due to start on series 2: "Normally, it's very perfunctory and the doctor just makes you cough. This time, he put a stethoscope on my heart and pulled a face and said, 'Oh dear, what have you been doing about the heart murmur?' And I said, 'What heart murmur?'
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