Despite some clever direction from Lily Lyndon, this sketch show sometimes failed to hit the mark. Stage management did an excellent job 'bombarding' the public with classic jingles and instantly recognizable accents; the minimal décor (posters inscribed with British channel names and a few chairs) kept the public's eye focused on the entertainment. Yet I felt there was something missing from Telly Visions.

Centred around the small screen and media in general, this sketch show opened with perhaps its most successful skit, a parody of Chatty Man featuring a hilariously deadpan Alan Rickman giving a speech on midwifery. Unfortunately not all the sketches were as successful, as they could veer at times into the clownish and self-referential, or failed to stick with the theme. Nevertheless, sketches where audience participation was invited were the occasion for some sharp fresh humour.

Telly Visions is honest and kind-hearted; of the five actors (Haydn Jenkins, Aurélien Guéroult, Lily Lindon, Ben Walsh and Jonathan Beilby), Beilby appears as the stand-out performer, with impeccable impressions and comic timing. Some sketches, such as Adam and Eve in Big Brother, had the audience bowled over laughing and worked well as the beginning of a critique on the media age — though this direction was never pursued. Some artistic choices seemed a bit puzzling, such as the hippo masks featured in the trailer, or the final sketch, featuring singing and dancing around a 'crusty slice' of bread. Personally I felt that the penultimate, almost meta-theatrical sketch, featuring Anne Robinson in her psychologist's office (frantically enumerating ideas for future shows) would have been a better conclusion to this hour of comedy.

In the end, though it was a fun-filled and enjoyable hour, I believe that Telly Visions lacked a real thread and could have benefited from more consistency. The typically 'Cambridgian' humour, with nods to St John's student-selecting process and running jokes based on the Lord of the Rings, were sure to elicit laughs from the room; but I feel that what would have really tied the show together would've been a smaller number of sketches and an effort to take the jokes further.