TV: Light-hearted baseball drama A League of their Own hits a home run

Rejoice! This isn’t another series of Sky’s inexplicably long-running lads’ panel comedy show about sport.

Instead, it’s something much more interesting.

During The Second World War, America’s baseball players were transported from the baseball field and fired towards the Germans and the Japanese, leaving no one for crowds to watch hit balls with a stick.

The canny baseball league created new teams made up of women around the US – you might remember Madonna and Geena Davis starring in a 1992 comedy drama about it.

Here is Prime Video’s remake, and it’s a home run, a pinch hit and, I don’t know, other baseball terms that apply. I don’t know a great deal about the sport but, then again, you don’t really need a working knowledge of whether to bunt at the bottom of the seventh when you’re three runs behind.

Abbi Jacobson, who created the sterling New York comedy Broad City, co-wrote this series and she brings a millennial eye to the 1940s world of sport which, as you can imagine, isn’t as progressive as you’d hope.

An England player taking her shirt off after scoring a goal the other week also brought a lot of whingeing, so keep at it, Abbi.

Much of this series focuses on the experiences of gay characters which, given the period, seems as if it might be grim; yet it keeps a light-hearted and likeable tone.

Touchdown…I think?

A League Of Their Own, Prime Video