You've been Gregg'd! Why Gregg Wallace served the nation a slice of spoof on Channel 4

The chef plating up human-derived meat in a mock documentary is the latest in a long and mischievous line of TV satires, says Ben Dowell.

Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat review

If Black Mirror were starved of subtlety.

Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat review

Let's leave Black Mirror to Charlie Brooker.

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All is not what it seems in this profile of human meat factories - including toddler tartare canapes. It's a neat satire about the cost of living crisis, even if it is in no way subtle.

It is tough to predict what will work on TV. Exhibit A: the third series of this show, in which minor celebs play old-school video games against each other. Catnip for the hidden hordes of the callus-thumbed, but a little more trying for the casual. Tonight: Gregg Wallace (strategy) v Jodie Kidd (reflexes).

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The video game comedy returns Romans, worm-like humans, and some accidental racism.

Time to vigorously Vim down that lino as Harry Hill coaxes another famous face towards his comedy kitchenette. Donning the celebrity sous chef apron tonight is EastEnders star Jessie Wallace, who will be joining Harry in a menu encompassing senseless starters and demented desserts, including a tribute to La La Land. It remains to be seen whether the series has already peaked now that Gregg Wallace has met his ovoid alter ego, Egg Wallace.

Radio Times review

Impressionist Lewis Macleod, the latest recruit to Dead Ringers, now gets his own show. Duncan Wisbey and Julian Dutton have contrived some fairly wacky situations to exploit their mate's best voices.

Morgan Freeman plays Fletcher in Porridge; Gregg Wallace sings a filthy love song to Mary Berry (Kate O'Sullivan); and a running gag has Benedict Cumberbatch turning up inopportunely to spout purple prose in the manner of Sherlock Holmes.

The show claims that Macleod has been hired to impersonate movie stars who refuse to re-record their inaudible lines. We want more details.

If MasterChef was about comedy instead of food, it's easy to imagine what John Torode and Gregg Wallace would make of this Ricky Gervais sitcom as it comes back for a second series.

"You've got tinkly piano music and genital warts," John would tell him. "Mate, those two things should never be on the same plate."

To which Gregg would add: "I'm getting the lovely light sweetness of Hannah and Derek, the sharpness of handyman Dougie played by Karl Pilkington, but then all I'm left with is this nasty, sour aftertaste in my mouth from Kev and that grubby pornographic gravy.

"There's a time and a place for sexual language like that and it just doesn't belong in a pudding."

I couldn't have put it better myself.

This week a new member of staff regales Derek with tales of strange creatures that are half-men, half-chimp, and Derek's father, Anthony (Tony Rohr) moves into the nursing home.

It's genuinely heart-warming to see him getting to know his son better.

Even if he is more interested in getting acquainted with all the female residents.