![]() ![]() Historians of the 1990s and of covert military practices will take pleasure in the excellently named DS Clinton Blair (Ariyon Bakare), progenitor of this confidential programme, described by Dom as a “budget Idris”. This is the set-up of Black Ops, an unruly new comedy about low-level players marooned in a secret operation. Dom (Gbemisola Ikumelo) and Kay (Hammed Animashaun) are inexperienced and ambivalent Black British PCSOs (the tier below the actual police “the s*** police”, in the show’s words) recruited to an unauthorised undercover mission within a notorious drug gang. ![]() And BBC One’s latest half-hour sitcom is no different. The IT Crowd, for example, or Transparent. Some TV shows have such deliciously punny titles that you wonder which came first: the name or the premise. ![]()
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