POH Ling Wow, the girl can act!

If you thought Masterchef alumni Poh Ling Yeow was a one-trick pony - and that pony only got tricky inside the four walls of a kitchen - think again.

She made her TV acting debut in ABC's new comedy It's A Date a week ago. This cute show is likeable comedian Peter Helliar's baby, and I mean cute in both a negative and positive way.

It's certainly better than Upper Middle Bogan, another new "comedy", taking the timeslot 30 minutes before Helliar. More on that later.

This eight-part series follows a new set of dating couples each week. It is trials and tribulations stuff, and the results are quite funny.

Poh, let me say it again, was fantastic; accusing her soon-to-be fiance of having yellow fever because he dated Asian women moments before being peed on by a homeless window-washer.

Other names in the line-up are Lisa McCune, Denise Scott, John Wood and Asher Keddie.

If you want half-baked and zero laughs, however, watch Upper Middle Bogan.

Michala Banas overacts in yet another highly-strung princess role; and Glenn Robbins' talents are utterly wasted.

The problem is the premise. A posh doctor finds out she is adopted, and her birth parents are drag-racing bogans living in a McMansion.

In the right hands, I guess it could have worked. But Wayne Hope and Robyn Butler (Librarians, Very Small Business) are again at the helm here, and I have never found their stuff funny.

I was confused at the sudden emotion in some scenes. It was moving, but it's meant to be a comedy. If you try to be all genres to all people, you end up with a superficial product.

And the camera work? Travel sickness tablets mandatory.