Impulse guy

ADAM and Joe have come a long way since they found fame putting handpuppets in lewd positions and giggling a lot. While Joe Cornish is becoming a piping hot screenwriter, with upcoming movies Ant-Man and Steven Spielberg’s Tintin, Adam Buxton is starring in The Persuasionists.

Set in the fictional advertising agency HHH&H, the underworked and overpaid staff spend all day trying to persuade people to buy things they don’t want with money they don’t have.

The staff includes impulsive Keaton (Darlington actor Simon Farnaby), smart and funny Billy (Iain Lee), spoilt and neurotic Emma (Daisy Haggard), Aussie boss Clive (Jarred Christmas) and hopeless, witless and feckless Greg (Buxton).

Haggard admits she had a great time working on the show. “It was a lot of fun to make. I’m really tired because of too much giggling. But it was really good fun,” she says.

Her ancestors include novelist H Rider Haggard, who wrote the classic adventures King Solomon’s Mines and She. “I fear I may not be as good as him. I should write a book called He,” she says.

Back to The Persuasionists, and in the opening episode, Greg is getting no love from within the agency and is reduced to searching the internet for comfort.

Keaton, meanwhile, finds himself out of sorts as he seems to have lost his legendary sexy mojo.

Creative Billy has written another offensive campaign, although his client, the handsome and highly charitable Carl, seems to love it – and he’s taken a shine to Emma, too.

THE Man Who Shot The 60s was Brian Duffy, a photographer who became almost as much of an icon as the famous people he was snapping.

He first became interested in photography while working as a freelance fashion artist for Harper’s Bazaar magazine in the Fifties, and within two years he was working for Vogue.

By the early Sixties, he was grouped with David Bailey and Terence Donovan as the most famous and influential photographers of the day, and he has been credited with helping to document and create the “swinging” decade.

He continued to capture iconic images well into the Seventies, but while he may have had legions of admirers, it seems he became disillusioned. Duffy disappeared from view, burning many of his negatives.

Now, with an exhibition of his pictures about to be unveiled, he looks back on his remarkable career, and reveals why he chose to destroy much of his work.

JUST as CSI spawned several offshoots, so the world of NCIS has got bigger. The original NCIS, the number one drama in the US, gave birth last year to spin-off series NCIS: Los Angeles, starring Chris O’Donnell.

Meanwhile, NCIS returns for its sixth season with the team in a very different situation than usual. NCIS director Jenny Shepard was killed at the end of last season and the remaining team members went their separate ways.

That means Gibbs (Mark Harmon) is in charge of a new team – the scatty Michelle Lee, the technically-minded Daniel Keating and the smarmy Brent Langer.

The fresh faces are sent to investigate the murder of a petty officer at a trailer park and discover the victim has been missing for over four months.

Abby (Pauly Perrette) bemoans that she misses the old team, but it isn’t long until Gibbs is back in contact with his former colleagues as he discovers there’s more to the new trio than meets the eye.

Could there be a traitor in their midst?

Someone has hacked into the Pentagon’s computer system and stolen the joint chief’s battle plan in the event of an attack on Israel.