Reviewers of the Motherland spin-off show are all proud of Lucy Punch, comparing her to Mrs Bucket.

Based, as the name suggests, on Lucy Punch’s break-out character, the “alpha mum” of the schoolgates, the spin-off focusses on Amanda at a new stage of her life with her kids now all at secondary school, and also introduces us to members of her family.

The spin-off’s focus is in its name: it will centre around the new life of Amanda, the self-obsessed leader of the original sitcom’s “Alpha Mums”. As Motherland neared its end, we saw the facade of Amanda’s seemingly perfect life crumble when her husband filed for divorce and she was forced out of her envy-inducing Acton home.