Comfort classic: The Good Life

A show that gently sends up the English middle class is built on a sharp script and consummate acting.

Sliced Q&A

Samson Kayo says Chewing Gum inspired him to tell his own story.

Can Perfect Curve save the Beeb?

As W1A prepares for season 3, the show's creator needs to tread carefully.

Review: Who would work in a suit like this?

A long-gone, winning formula gets a revival - and the result is appallingly watchable.

Who would recommission a TV show like this?

New host Keith Lemon will front the latest series as executives look to old hits to revive ratings.

TV review - Need a ratings boost? Call in the Muppets

The game show format is spectacularly revived with the help of some colourful old friends ...

IoS PG Wodehouse quiz: You could just ask Jeeves!

Downton Abbey may have gone, but fear not! PG Wodehouse is back. As the BBC's Blandings hits our screens next Sunday, Matthew Bell tests your knowledge of this saga of toffs at play.

Russell Brand and Andrew Sachs emerged from last year's scandal with their careers intact, but Sachs's grand-daughter Georgina Baillie looks like she's heading the way of Jonathan Ross. The one-time Goth stripper has filmed the pilot of a new vampire sitcom, and so far the critics have been less than enthusiastic. Vampire Georgina stars Baillie as a pretty young blood-sucker who confesses her misdemeanours to the camera from her bed. Manuel has gone down in TV history as one of the greatest sitcom characters of all time, but we fear the talent has failed to cascade down the generations. If you don't believe me, see for yourself at vampiregeorgina.com.

Barry Cryer: Those old ones are still the best

The treacle-voiced stalwart of radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, is still going strong after more than 30 years of side-splitting gags and anecdotes.