I Want My Wife Back is a British sitcom shown on BBC One, starring Ben Miller and Caroline Catz as Murray and Bex.
This begins Murray's quest to discover what went wrong and how to win her back, though it's less a journey than a floundering stumble in the dark towards the prize of returning his life to something approaching normality.
All the while he's having to manage the demands of his ultra-needy team members at the office, as well as navigating his way through the well-meaning but counter-productive advice from friends and family.
[3] Bex moves in with a single friend, who is obsessed with helping other formerly married women whose husbands have been unfaithful (though Murray hasn't).
The series was compared with The Worst Week of My Life,[citation needed] which also starred Ben Miller as a man with bad luck where everything that can go wrong does, with plenty of embarrassing funny moments.
The Radio Times' Alison Graham said "Though I might like to think that my comedy heart is made of coal and coated in tar, I am a sucker for silliness".
Terry Scott would have worn the role of Murray like a leather driving glove, though he didn’t have Miller’s charm.
He is very good at Jack Lemmon-ish repressed comedy stress and juggling lots of comedic balls – verbal, physical – at the same time.