The New Normal (TV3, Fridays, 8pm) has its moments, but it's never sure which moments it wants to have. The tone lurches madly from cute as baby puke to what is presumably meant to be bigotry daringly dressed up as comedy and in high heels.
It is certainly rude - if not terribly inventive - about gay people while also being entirely pro-gay about gay people, especially when it comes to gay people having kids, which is the storyline.
The happy gay couple are happily coupled without any desire to have kids when one half of this couple (Bryan, the half who likes clothes and dieting and too much hair product and wants to look like Mary Tyler Moore: "Well, not the hair, obviously") sees a really cute baby in a pushchair while out clothes shopping.
Bryan goes home with a darling little coat, for a baby. He announces to his partner, David, who is watching football on the telly, that he wants to buy baby clothes and a baby to put in the clothes. David is not so sure; he's also not so sure that Bryan realises you can't return a baby to Barneys if it doesn't fit.
Anyway, they're getting a baby - because there would be no sitcom otherwise - and so end up at a surrogacy-finding agency where the surrogacy wrangler simplifies the situation by charmlessly informing the couple that a surrogate mother (or "gestational carrier" as Nicole Kidman even more charmlessly called her baby's surrogate mother) is "just like an Easy-Bake over with no rights to the cupcake".