Ellen E Jones

The Guess List, TV review

Rob Brydon has a surprisingly rare, but commercially valuable, ability to be both granny-friendly and genuinely funny.

Review: Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns

This could easily have been just a rehash of jingoistic values, without the mitigating Python silliness - and sometimes it was - but Real Ripping Yarns also provided a novel lens though which to view a major change in British culture.

Review: Praise the Lord, Adam and Alex are back

Most admirable is that it never scruples to offend the churchy set in the front pews in pursuit of a punchline.

The Walshes, TV review

The jokes hit home in a family sitcom with a touch of Father Ted.

Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, TV review

This comedy about comedy would be unforgivably self-indulgent if Stewart Lee wasn't just as incisive on every other facet of modern life as he is on his own comedic genius.

Jonathan Creek preview

This evening, the mop-headed magician's assistant returns to BBC1 to solve another howdunnit, involving a West End play, a locked room and a grinning corpse.

Blandings, TV review

Blandings is a lot of fun. Harry Enfield doing his Cholmondley-Warner on steroids was just one of the several guest stars we're promised.

TV review: Sharon Rooney is affecting as ever as Rae

As ever, Sharon Rooney was natural and affecting as Rae. Her performance should provoke a painful twinge of recognition in even the most grown-up grown-ups, yet this is still a programme to make you wish yourself young again.

If you've been enjoying stand-up comedian Nick Helm's BBC3 sitcom Uncle, you'll be unsurprised to discover he was up to no good. There's only one more episode to go of this first, six-part series and while Andy (Helm) has formed a closer bond with his nephew Errol (Elliot Speller-Gillott), he's still, pleasingly, a truly despicable role model for the kids.

That was proved yet again this week as Andy juggled the affections of three women in a typically craven fashion: current fling Shelly, ex-girlfriend Gwen and Errol's music teacher Melodie. Andy's behaviour was so shabby, he even had to defend himself to an 11-year-old: "What are you? The girlfriend police? I can have as many girlfriends as I want!"

Meanwhile, Andy's sister, Sam was attempting to trade in her reliable but dull AA sponsor, for the übercool Susie, a former Mick Jagger groupie. Susie turned out to be yet another useless role model, but if Sam's after a genuine rock idol to hero-worship I have a much better suggestion: Viv Albertine from the Slits.

TV review: Danny Boyle tackles topic of the moment

Babylon's best scene was its opening one, in which several tooled-up, testosterone-addled members of the show's deftly cast ensemble were caught on camera phone bursting into a man's home and tasering his testicles.