Ian Bonar deserves a special award for his turn as pin aficionado – or "pinhead" – Stanley Howler.
The streets are lined with fantastical, tottering buildings that seem almost-but-not-quite to deny the laws of physics, and every performance seems to cleave to the same principle – climbing vertiginously but never quite going too far and overbalancing. It's all boundlessly clever, joyful and exuberant. To do this he must bring order to chaos – the post office corridors are filled with undelivered envelopes – and do battle with Reacher Gilt (David Suchet), the evil owner of the "Clacks" service (a Discworld proxy for t'interweb) that put the post office out of commission four years ago. "The last inch being the crux of the matter") and offered the chance to keep his neck intact by bringing the defunct postal system of Ankh-Morpork back to life.
Richard Coyle plays Moist von Lipwig, a con man who is reprieved at the very last moment from the gallows ("You were hung to within an inch of your life," says Charles Dance, playing city patriarch Lord Vetinari. Going Postal (Sky1) is a two-part adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel of the same name. Oh, when I am President of the World this is how every Sunday and bank holiday Monday teatime will be – great slabs of fabulous telly smothered in lashings of Pratchett jam.
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