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Kayode Ewumi’s slightly surreal delivery-firm comedy bags the Fleabag slot for a second showing of its second series
The creator, writer and star of Enterprice (BBC One, 10.50pm), Kayode Ewumi, rose to fame playing a deluded “triple threat” rapper, dancer and actor in his hit web series #HoodDocumentary, becoming a meme in the process. After the BBC picked up #HoodDocumentary in 2016, Enterprice followed in 2018, then a small role last year in Jamie Demetriou’s consistently bonkers Stath Lets Flats on Channel 4, as an estate agent whose property boasted “no doors, just ropes”.
Ewumi spoke rapturously this month about growing up on the likes of Hollyoaks and Doctors, as well as his love of Donald Glover’s Atlanta, with its occasional “wait, what?” moments in which disbelief is not so much suspended as discarded. It is heartening, then, to see him continue to marry the kind of storylines that would not be out of place in soapland (kidnappings, burglaries, medical crises) with a dash of Glover-style surreality – as well as his own playful, heart-filled writing – in this second series of Enterprice. Now re-airing in the Fleabag slot after premiering on iPlayer earlier in the year, the series sees him reprise his role as Kazim, one half of the fledgling south London delivery service Speedi-Kazz. While Kazim is all about the hustle, his business partner, the former medical student Jeremiah (Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge), is more cautious, his mum remaining constantly and loudly disappointed by his decision to drop out of university. Think of it as akin to a young, black Only Fools and Horses – but weirder. In the first series, the pair were almost divided by their different backgrounds and varying approaches to business, but now they are back – and stronger than ever. Kazim suggests hiring an underling for their business (“We’ll just pay them six wings and chips”). After all, he is, as he tells two thoroughly uninterested girls on a double date with Jeremiah, merely “trying to get Mummy out the ends and put her in a Benz”. When a waiter suggests he reconsider his choice of expensive wine, Kazim loudly accuses him of discrimination (“Us black people, we like to bring each other down”), before clocking the price and frantically searching for the cork. Continue reading...