[4] The cast includes Mark Heap, Sarah Parish and Rebecca Humphries, whilst the new recruits are played by Callie Cooke, Sam Pote, Sukh Kaur Ojla, Halema Hussain, Abdul Sessay, and Jamie Bisping.
[7][10] Lucy Mangan of The Guardian gave the series three stars out of five but concluded that after "the first couple of episodes you are longing for Piglets to stop pulling its punches and embrace the absurdity, or to cut its losses and settle into ordinary sitcom territory.
"[13] Reviewing the series in The Daily Telegraph, Anita Singh gave it two stars out of five, calling it a "so-so comedy" and saying that it "has its amusing moments [...] but overall it is pretty weak stuff.
"[14] In the i, Rachael Sigee gave the series two stars out of five, calling it "dire" and "completely unremarkable", deeming it inferior to the writing team's earlier Green Wing, and saying that the controversy over its title was more interesting.
[15] In a more positive review, The Times' Ben Dowell gave the series four stars out of five, saying that comedy fans would "probably" see the series' similarity to Green Wing as "a good thing" and that it was mostly "clever, rude, decidedly weird and sharply funny", though he did note that some jokes felt "a little forced, and you can see some of the punchlines coming, if not a mile off, certainly a few feet away.