Graham Kibble-White

David Mitchell, 10 O'Clock Live - interview

David Mitchell says of 10 O'Clock Live... "it's different from anything I've done before, because you can't write jokes for it."

Dave Gorman interview

The comedy show intent on unearthing genius ideas returns, but as host Dave Gorman reveals, it's all change for series two...

Alan Davies interview

The Jonathan Creek star swaps his duffle coat for whites in a new BBC2 sitcom in which he plays a past-his-prime chef...

Psychoville Review

Psychoville feels like a pastiche of everything Pemberton and Shearsmith thrilled at when they were kids. For some reason, I had assumed they'd be done exploring their formative influences by now. But no. Thing is, I'm not sure I've got the stomach for this stuff anymore, and certainly not the fascination. Daubing "Fuck pig" on a wall in faeces, and spraying a kitchen with semen is actually, weirdly, a bit boring.

Rouge awakening

I've got to be honest and say I have conflicting feelings. I'd never call myself a Red Dwarf fan, but I guess I'm enough of a fan to hold an opinion on when I think the original series stopped being truly great. Many of the problems that dogged its latter years are gone, here. There's a cohesive story, for one, and the characters are allowed once more to do - well - just what we want to see them doing. Hey, even the original font is back!

Another David Renwick Interview

The Off The Telly website interviews the writer of the show about the new 2008 Christmas special.

Then, Saturday, and an appointment at LWT Towers for the recording of An Audience Without Jeremy Beadle courtesy of ITV1. [...] Chris Tarrant hosted, bringing us a melange of Beadle action which did well to acknowledge both The Deceivers and Eureka, gave loads of screen time to Beadle's Box of Tricks, recreated that Game For a Laugh game and just generally summed up all that was ace about the bearded one - with the right balance of affection and piss-taking.

Adrian Edmondson's upcoming, and much postponed, ITV1 sitcom, Teenage Kicks (currently due to air Friday March 28 - but that could all change) is an old school, broad-brush effort. And, here's a thing, it features a Chinese, Star Wars-loving nerd called David (Jonathan Chan-Pensley). There's a bit where one of the Caucasian characters takes the piss out of his accent, and gives it the full-on Charlie Chan. Is that okay, now?

The Curse of Steptoe is the first in BBC4's The Curse of Comedy season. And I've just finished watching it on preview disc. It's wonderful - Jason Isaacs (Harry H Corbett) and Phil Davis (Wilfrid Brambell) nail their roles. [...] The film documents the actors' frosty relationship, with both each other, and the show that simultaneously made and ruined them. It's beautifully shot, cleverly written ("The father's just a feed, really", Corbett tells his wife) and - well - just loads better than the BBC recent trails make it appear.

To the Manor Born was one of the quintessential cosy 'coms of the '70s and '80s. In a new century, though, with not all that much changed about the show, it seems a very rum thing indeed. Perhaps, as the saying goes, the past is another country.