Like Nick Helm's BBC3 comedy Uncle, this period sitcom from Sky Atlantic begins with a botched suicide attempt, but (as with Uncle) the tone lightens significantly from there. Nick Frost plays the titular Sloane, a man out of time in a swinging 60s, separated from his wife and out of work, but ploughing on regardless. Created by Curb Your Enthusiasm alum Robert B Weide, it boasts a supporting cast including Peter Serafinowicz and Olivia Colman.

Radio Times review

If humanity is to survive then we must become a multi-planet species and spread out like a male passenger on the tube seat of the cosmos. With this advice delivered, Helen Keen takes us on an entirely fact-based but very funny journey through the possibilities of travelling to and living on Mars.

Keen strikes the perfect balance between presenting potentially dull facts and keeping the comic pace going, mainly thanks to the sci-fi-blockbuster-voiceover-style commentary from Peter Serafinowicz.

Review: It's more like Top Gear with geeks

An audience of maths students looked on, scribbling on their notepads. It was like Top Gear with geeks. Dara O Briain had the advantage of a degree in maths and theoretical physics, but guests Peter Serafinowicz and Kevin Bridges looked completely bewildered.

Dara O'Briain returns for a third series of calculus-based comedy. Again he's joined by brain-in-a-tank Marcus du Sautoy, who immediately ingratiates himself with football-mad standup Kevin Bridges by explaining the physics behind Roberto Carlos's bafflingly bendy free kick at Le Tournoi in 1997 (something to do with the Navier-Stokes equations, apparently). Elsewhere, Bridges and the rather great Peter Serafinowicz try to solve problems around vegetables, cheese and guitars. Knotty fun.

Radio Times review

The problem-solving series returns to strike terror into the hearts of the trigonometrically challenged. This opener lures you in with some frolicking, manly banter about eight-dimensional kebabs and the fluid dynamics behind a Roberto Carlos free kick. But the problem with the format is that it's very difficult to play along at home. So there are lots of shots of things being arranged on tables and students saying "Hmm" into their marker pens, but we have little idea how any of them are doing until adjudicator Marcus du Sautoy wades in to make everyone (apart from Dara) feel a bit thick.

Comedians Kevin Bridges and the terrific Peter Serafinowicz are the guests. The latter, in particular, makes little attempt to disguise his bafflement throughout.

Peter Serafinowicz, voice acting for game Dark Souls II

Best known for his appearances in Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Look Around you, actor and comedian Peter Serafinowicz will next be seen - or more accurately, heard - in forthcoming fantasy adventure game Dark Souls II. Here, the keen gamer discusses his role as mysterious character Pate, and his love for what many regard as the hardest video game on the planet.

Jason Byrne has a very endearing quality about him, which is just as well, as his new sitcom Father Figure has precious little else going for it.

Byrne plays a house husband attending to the domestic chores while his wife holds down a job and his two children go to school. He has a friend who pops round occasionally to distract him and tease him with comments about men in pinafores. That is the 'sit' part of the sitcom, and it is not exactly cutting edge.

The 'com' part just baffles me. It consists of a conveyor belt of silly moments and rudimentary sight gags loosely attached to a plot - and I use the term 'plot' in its widest possible sense. In the absence of any decent one-liners or characterisation, Byrne, the writer as well as star, attempts a frustratingly half-hearted surrealism, usually stuck on as fantasy inserts but which sometimes intrudes into the action itself.

To say that I didn't get the humour would be the grossest of understatements. The show seems to hover in a comedy limbo all its own, somewhere between the conformity of My Family and the madness of The Mighty Boosh, the end result being messy and unfocused.

The strange thing is that although I didn't laugh once, I didn't actually dislike Father Figure. As I said, Byrne is an amiable performer and has surrounded himself with an eminently watchable supporting cast, including Pauline McLynn and Peter Serafinowicz. Half an hour passes pleasantly enough, but I won't be rushing back to Father Figure anytime soon.

Peter Serafinowicz working on new comedy film

Peter Serafinowicz is about to make a major splash in the feature world. Serafinowicz's debut will be I See What You Did There.

Marc Warren's Hey Diddly Dee [was] a lame comedy about a flailing Andy Warhol musical prepping for its West End premiere. Peter Serafinowicz plays the aging, egotistical star; Kylie Minogue his leading lady and Mathew Horne his browbeaten understudy.

Crammed with creaking theatrical cliches - superstitions and la-di-da luvvies - it treats theatre with patronising contempt. David Harewood gives a corking cameo as the pandering director, but based on this effort, Warren should be banned from coming within 100 yards of a writing implement.

The first in a new series of Playhouse Presents, Hey Diddly Dee was an extremely enjoyable, deliciously dark comedy about a dismal West End production's final day of rehearsals.

Tensions are already running high when obnoxious star Roger Kite (Peter Serafinowicz) denigrates the production in front of the cast, humiliates his understudy (Mathew Horne) and unceremoniously dumps his co-star mistress (Kylie Minogue). But most recklessly of all, Kite threatens the theatre's lucky cat - never a good idea, given the theatre world's preoccupation with superstition and the supernatural.

Writer and director Marc Warren throws in every conceivable showbusiness cliche and mixes them up to fun effect. The story itself gets a little lost, and the ending is confusing to say the least, but the performances from the starry cast are terrific. I particularly enjoyed David Harewood, fresh from being blown up in the series finale of Homeland, as the hapless director trying and failing to keep his volatile star sweet.