Hell, yeah: ‘Everyone Else Burns’ in new CW comedy

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“Everyone Else Burns” makes a nice addition to the CW’s growing prime-time lineup comprised mostly of quality imports.The droll British comedy, airing on Channel 4 in the UK — where it’s been renewed for a second season — premieres Oct.

26 at 9:30 p.m. EST. It revolves around the uber-religious Lewis family, who live in Manchester and are led by God-fearing patriarch David (Simon Bird), he of the Moe Howard/”Three Stooges” haircut who breathes hellfire when he’s not working his day job at a packaging center with savant-like skill.

David believes the apocalypse lurks just around the corner — namely 2025, when, he says, the world will end. “You get biscuits after the moon’s turned to blood,” he tells his young son, Aaron (Harry Connor), who complains that he’s hungry after an enforced two-hour late-night “Apocalypse Practice” run into the countryside.David’s grim-visaged wife Fiona (Kate O’Flynn) and 17-year-old daughter Kate (Amy James-Kelly) secretly yearn to expand their horizons beyond the Order of the Divine Rod church, which considers caffeine a drug and expels a family who’ve opened a coffee shop since their souls are destined to burn in hell for eternity.

Fiona and Rachel indulge David’s blinkered fire-and-brimstone talk — to a point — but they’re running out of patience. Aaron is starting to doubt his father’s prophecies and expresses his feelings through gothic-horror sketches that are definitely not David-friendly — and even David has his creeping doubts when he’s passed over as a church elder in favor of his frenemy, Andrew (Kadiff Kirwan).The series opener establishes its premise nicely and introduces many of the characters who play bigger roles later on, including recently divorced neighbor Melissa (Morgana.