David Mitchell (I)

Greg Davies leads a dark and curious comedy

The Cleaner (BBC One) is a strange creation, and - while intriguing - it may turn out to be an acquired taste.

The Cleaner review

The series isn't quite dark or comic enough to go down as an unqualified success.

David Mitchell, columnist of this parish, has a new Radio 4 series, Mitchell On Meetings. Mitchell doesn't like them. Mitchell, whose witty, slightly embittered articulacy makes him the ideal Radio 4 personality, has avoided meetings for years. But during this programme, the first of three, he realises that the comedy panel shows that make up much of his professional life are, in fact, quite like meetings: "There are the ones where no one's listening, and people have gone in with 10 things they want to say, and there are the ones where it's actually a conversation..."

This was such a delicious show, so cleverly hosted that interesting information just slid down, medicine sugared by fun. As with the 606-ers, disappointment and irritation are Mitchell's default moods, but, God, he makes them hilarious. On learning that introverts think before they speak, whereas extroverts just start chatting: "Look, while I'm thinking, I'm making a noise, why can't introverts learn that?"

Olivia Colman needed hypnotherapy after wetting herself

Olivia Colman has revealed that she saw a hypnotherapist for stage fright after once 'wetting herself' on stage laughing with David Mitchell.

Comfort classic: Peep Show

Steve Clarke can't get enough of this missing link between Men Behaving Badly and Fleabag.

20 names we'd like to see on Taskmaster

Which comics would you like to see on the show? Here are some name we think would make excellent competitors.

Review: Stand Up And Deliver

The news that celebrities would be trying their hand at stand-up on TV was initially greeted with rumblings of discontent among some comedians. Why should these famous amateurs be given air time when established practitioners can barely work, was their understandable complaint.