When following up a successful sitcom, should a writer head off into new territory or not? That was the question facing Dan Levy after Schitt’s Creek and John Morton after WIA – and now we have their answers: ‘yes’ and ‘not really, even with a change of country’ respectively. Curiously, both seem to have made the wrong choice.

‘Schitt’s,’ Levy has explained, ‘was so warm and sweet and cuddly. My natural curiosity was to go somewhere else more dangerous’; specifically, to provide ‘a story that’s thrilling but never not funny. That became the big challenge of the writers’ room.’

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Seeking to rise to it, Big Mistakes – co-created with Rachel Sennott – began with the New Jersey siblings Nick and Morgan (Levy and Taylor Ortega) at the hospital bedside of their senile, incontinent grandmother, whose dying wish was apparently to have a diamond necklace of the kind that she’d lost on her honeymoon. Given that Nick’s a pastor and Morgan an elementary-school teacher, this was financially unfeasible. But figuring that their grandmother wouldn’t know the difference, they found a passable replica in a cheap gift shop.........

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