THE GOES WRONG SHOW
Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: All six installments of this stage comedy series from BBC One are imported today by Amazon, and their overall cleverness and wittiness should impress you. It comes from the Mischief comedy troupe, the same folks that concocted and starred in the West End and Broadway comedy hit The Play That Goes Wrong. And this TV variant presents six “plays,” each in a different genre, purportedly performed by the Cornley Dramatic Society in front of a live audience. The audience is real, but the plays are gloriously skewed – as are the performances, the sets, and everything else that happens in The Goes Wrong Show. I suggest skipping the Christmas play at the start and jumping straight to the WWII spoof in episode two. And don’t miss the episode six Tennessee Williams spoof, which manages to get extended belly laughs out of a gravity-defying set (pictured) that owes its inspiration to Ernie Kovacs. These are such original outings, I’m already hungry for more. And Amazon could deliver them, because BBC One and Mischief also collaborated on a couple of Goes Wrong specials – including 2017’s A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, starring Diana Rigg and Derek Jacobi. I need to see that immediately, please. And Peter Pan Goes Wrong, from 2016, too.