Julia Raeside

Steve Coogan on bringing Alan Partridge back to the BBC

Twenty-five years since he first appeared on screen, the immortal presenter is back where he began. His creator explains why a divided nation needs him more than ever.

Car Share Unscripted review

Scripted element of Peter Kay and Sian Gibson's effort far outshines the improvised material.

Inside No 9 review

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith toy entertainingly with the Bard's verse and narrative tropes.

GameFace review

Roisin Conaty's thirtysomething heroine is directionless, enthusiastic and, above all, funny.

Guests leave The Graham Norton Show but, as with the mafia, they keep getting pulled back in. Among the returning guests this week are Miranda Hart (slightly more awkward in interviews than you might expect), who's talking about her new role in Annie, Keeley Hawes and the good-value, expansive Peter Capaldi. Your big Hollywood hitter this week is Warren Beatty, plugging Rules Don't Apply, where he plays Howard Hughes.

Meet Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the British Lena Dunham

She's filthy-minded, desperate for connection and masturbates to Barack Obama while she watches the news ... BBC Three's new sitcom has a heroine who will chime with twentysomethings everywhere.

Rovers - football comedy that doesn't quite score

The reunion of The Royle Family stars Craig Cash and Sue Johnston is welcome - but this new sitcom is pleasurable rather than honkingly funny.

Ben Elton finds the comedy in Shakespeare's history

With David Mitchell playing the Bard as a flowery show-off, there's lots to enjoy in this knockabout sitcom with Liza Tarbuck.

A triple bill from the queen of affable slapstick. This binge includes the episode in which Miranda's plan to take French classes backfires when she runs into a loathed former teacher, played by Peter Davison - whose occasional TV appearances are a reminder of his exemplary timing. It also includes the one with the Officer and a Gentleman ending and the usual sterling support from Sarah Hadland, Sally Phillips and Patricia Hodge.

Super-silly sitcom about the royal family from the creators of Star Stories, Bert Tyler Moore and George Jeffrie. The gags bang and whoosh like a New Year's Eve fireworks display and W1A's Hugh Skinner is outstanding (and somehow even posher than before) as Prince William, backed up nicely by Harry Enfield as a mildly demented Prince Charles and Haydn Gwynne as a conniving Camilla. The result is quite joyfully daft throughout. Knighthoods all round.