2/8. A jealous Sophie spreads malicious gossip about Scott when he starts to get close to Ashika, while George Morgan fails to see the funny side after a selection of exaggerated tales concerning his upbringing start to circulate.

DRAMA
Party Animals 9.00pm BBC2
The everyday story of political folk and their love lives continues with lobbyist Scott reeling from the traumatic events of last week, while Ashika turns on the froideur with her MP lover James: it's a sulk that even a pot of heather honey can't soften. Meanwhile, junior minister Jo (a deliciously dry performance from Raquel Cassidy) has a freedom-of-speech row over a film that's being shot in her constituency that features sex at a mosque.
The drama is still sharp, convincing and full of cheeky details: new-Tory James's office is decorated with a semi-ironic print of Margaret Thatcher; his old-Tory enemy George says "racialist" when he means racist; and, best of all, Labour MP Jo refers in passing to "Clem" keeping her awake with his teething: of course a Labour minister would name a child after Clement Attlee! DB