Caitlin Moran

The brilliance of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle

Anyway, is Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle very clever and funny, and full of things that you are still thinking about the next morning while you jog in the spring sunshine at 8am? Yes. Of course.

Jonathan Ross walks the tight rope on TV return

But in last night's comeback Tonight With Jonathan Ross, Ross showed some of the chops that got him that much-mentioned £18.5m contract with the BBC in the first place. After the most high-profile spell on the naughty stair in recent broadcasting history - a three month suspension, £1.1m in lost wages and all the peevish umbrage the Daily Mail could throw at him - Ross picked up his broadcasting career with a rueful yet resilient, "Now - where were we?"

Heroes is back to baffle us - like Steve Coogan in Sunshine

The plot of Heroes is a complex puzzle - almost as curious as why Coogan chose to play the straight man

The Invisibles: the BBC drama where the inspiration went missing

BBC One's tale of two retired burglars returning to business must have been fun to make - less fun to watch

Stephen Merchant's festive TV picks

I was talking about this with [p=46]Rick[y Gervais, obviously]], and we're not really sure who's going to watch this. Their audience is wives pouring their husbands a sherry on his return from work, and saying, "A little drink before To the Manor Born?" But they've all died since it was last on.

Boosh on a budget

It's wacky and full of cheap laughs - especially since the BBC cut costs on The Mighty Boosh

Will the real Ronni stand up?

The Big Impression star has her own show and it terrifies her

Putting the ham in Pratchett's Hog

Marc Warren is doing well at the moment, isn't he? He appears to have cornered the market in portraying mordant, otherworldly characters with perverse blood-lust - maybe after realising that Tamzin Outhwaite just wasn't going to go that final length, after all. Over Christmas we'll be seeing him as an extremely kinky Count Dracula on the BBC. Last night, meanwhile, Warren was the lisping assassin in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather on Sky One (Sunday; concludes tonight).

The first episode of The Story of Light Entertainment (BBC Two, Saturday) - this week, focusing on double-acts - and the narrative felt at times like an Old Testament of primetime. As the clips rushed by in pedestrian chronology, Flanagan & Allen begat Abbott & Costello, begat Morecambe & Wise, begat Cook & Moore, begat Reeves & Mortimer, begat Little Britain. It was a Mock Family Tree. A guide to Britain's one-liner-eage.

Oh dear, this Mayo appears to be off

Holy flying son of God, but isn't your first reaction to Mayo (BBC One, Sunday) one of suspicion? "New Series: Impressionist Alistair McGowan as a grammar-obsessed cop called Gil Mayo" - it seems like a code for something. Some threat to our national security; or maybe a puzzle that leads to a jewelled hare buried outside Box Hill. If only we could understand it!