The Visit Series 1

A comedy series about a group of 'banged-up' petty crooks and the family and friends who visit them each week in their natural environment, a low-security prison. Set almost entirely in the prison visiting room, the comic tension flows from a three-way dynamic between the ...A comedy series about a group of 'banged-up' petty crooks and the family and friends who visit them each week in their natural environment, a low-security prison. Set almost entirely in the prison visiting room, the comic tension flows from a three-way dynamic between the prisoners, their visitors and the undervalued prison officers.

Each episode focuses on the life of a different prisoner and, like that other British prison comedy Porridge, the depressing setting doesn't stop the comedy from being warm, slightly ridiculous and surprisingly accessible.