At first glance you might think that People Just Do Nothing is pretty niche youth programming from BBC3. A fly-on-the-wall documentary about a bunch of baseball capped no-marks running a pirate radio station called Kurupt FM in Brentford? Hardly crossover potential surely. But you’d be wrong. I’ve got a friend who works for Stannah Stairlift-advertising Saga magazine who doesn’t know his garage from his grime and he loves it. He has excellent taste.

And the second series should hopefully attract more fans from across the board. You don't really need to know much about the characters, they are so neatly drawn – the script is mostly credited to the main cast members – that the threads are easy to pick up. In the first episode Angel, the daughter of wannabe garage legend MC Grindah (Allan Mustafa), is about to be “Christianed”, but who is going to be the godfather - Beats (Hugo Chegwin), whose proudest achievement to date is his new beard, or Decoy (Daniel Sylvester Woolford), who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Angel?

Despite the setting and the mockumentary format this reminds me of Dad’s Army. The crew is as eccentrically incompetent as Mainwaring and co. The only difference here is that they wear sports gear and trainers rather than army uniforms and boots. Oh, and smoke weed. If there is a fault it is that they are maybe too hapless. There is no Tim-from-The-Office or Sgt Wilson with some self-knowledge to raise the IQ level closer to average. Grindah’s girlfriend Miche is not the sharpest tool in the box, while entrepreneur Chabuddy probably can’t even spell Apprentice.

As for their radio station, their biggest achievement to date is Kurupt FM’s listenership hitting double figures, which suggests that not even their friends are tuning in. These tools may be a bunch of fools, but you'd be a fool not to watch People Just Do Nothing. 

Wednesdays from July 15, 10pm, BBC3.

Watch the cast's Dragon's Den appearance here.