Always use a condom, kids. The underlying message comes through loud and clear from new BBC Three sitcom Daddy Issues, which delivers a potent blend of wit and charm about its pregnant young heroine throughout its six episodes, without ever losing sight of the fact that life would have been much better if she had managed to avoid getting into such a predicament in the first place.
Aimee Lou Wood, whose comedy credentials have been in no doubt since her screen debut in Sex Education five years ago, plays Gemma, a 24-year-old Stockport hairdresser. Gemma likes partying and hooking up, until one bareback encounter in a plane toilet with a man who can’t even quote famous TV adverts correctly (such a perfect skewering of the very last type you want fathering your child) leaves her up the duff.
