On the Verge of a Midlife Crisis with Sharon Horgan, Channel 4, review "I was going to do exactly as I pleased," said Bea, one of the six women explaining what they were going to do about being On the Verge of a Midlife Crisis (Channel 4). They confided wacky new lifestyles to the comedian Sharon Horgan. Luckily, all Bea exactly wanted was to have her eyebrows tattooed on. There was no time for each mid-lifer to utter much more than the odd giveaway phrase. "Give Mummy the ball," said Leila, 48, who wanted a baby, to her dog. "I don't know if my heart is capable of being broken," said Gaynor, characterised as a "cougar," as she pursued the "transient joy" (Horgan's phrase) of picking up younger men. Meanwhile Nicola did rather more as she pleased than Bea. She dumped her partner, moved to London, adopted Rockabilly leisure pursuits, and had herself tattooed. She still has some space spare. This water-beetle skim across lives was hardly more interesting than the ad breaks, but of the Horgan half-dozen, the one who seemed unassailably happy was Marie, who had got rid of all her possessions (including 300 shoes) to live in a narrow boat. So Horgan's remark about the domestic arrangements, "I don't think Josef Fritzl could have done a better job," just sounded unkind.