Real life comedian Louis CK - whose recent stand-up shows in London garnered rave reviews - plays Louie, who also happens to be a stand-up, raising two daughters in his native New York.

At times you couldn't even remotely call it amusing, and at times you're left open-mouthed - particularly so when, in an episode in series one, he turns on a heckler. But at times it is brilliantly funny and there is nobody on TV doing a show quite like it. Here's what the US critics had to say when the second series aired in the States back in 2011:

"Dating, working, friendship, the mixed bag of wonderfulness and tedium that is raising kids – all of these things clearly take up a huge amount of real estate in Louis C.K.'s mind, and watching him tenaciously sort through his reactions to challenges in those arenas is always interesting, occasionally profound and frequently funny." - Maureen Ryan, Huffington Post

"Still funny and still not for everyone. Louie remains very much a taste that you either acquire--or don't." - Verne Gay, Newsday