Early Doors review

Full of geniality and honest humour, the stage incarnation is a real crowd-pleaser, guaranteed - with the aid of an unexpected musical finale - to send the audience home with an inner glow equivalent to a couple of large brandies. Doubles all round!

Film review: Brakes

Brakes might be set in London but it's much more like Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise than Truly, Madly Deeply.

I Want My Wife Back will need to do better

In the end, though, this was a comedy that was mainly stuck in neutral. It would really need to shift up a gear or three to make me want to watch a second series.

Review: Peter Wight and Bobby Ball shine

Overall I really enjoyed The Security Men and I have to say I laughed at least four or five times. Aherne and Pope have crafted some brilliant characters and put them in the most boring of situations. I felt that Peter Wight shone the most as the incredibly anal Kenneth.

Who wouldn't enjoy having the run of an empty shopping centre? But in this one-off comedy drama, co-written by Caroline Aherne (The Royle Family) and Jeff Pope (Mrs Biggs), a quartet of night security guards take things a little too far.

Having become used to using their workplace as one big playground, the team decides to adjust the security system to allow them to watch a boxing match in glorious HD.

After all, what's the worst that could happen? Brendan O'Carroll (the Irish comedian beneath the copious cardies of Mrs Brown's Boys), Peter Wight (The Paradise), Dean Andrews (Last Tango In Halifax) and Bobby Ball (without his Cannon) are the guards taking the mick.

Since the all-conquering success of The Royle Family, Caroline Aherne has been almost invisible, the great disappearing woman of British comedy. Security Men is a one-off collaboration with Jeff Pope, who also co-wrote her last project, 2009's The Fattest Man in the World.

So expectations will be high for this, a boysy, old-fashioned comedy about work-shy nightwatchmen at a shopping centre, where an attempt to catch a late-night boxing match in the centre's electrical shop backfires horribly. The star is Peter Wight as Kenneth, the mall's jobsworth head of security, obsessed with detail and routine, while his colleagues (played by Dean Andrews, Brendan O'Carroll and - gulp - Bobby Ball) mock him behind his back.

This one-off comedy written by Caroline Aherne and Jeff Pope (who also wrote The Fattest Man In Britain together) was filmed way back in 2011. But, although anything that bears Aherne's name is usually worth seeking out, this isn't going to set the world alight.

In fact, one of the main reasons for tuning in is to see Brendan O'Carroll in uniform instead of the Mrs Brown drag that has made him a superstar.

The show also stars Peter Wight, Dean Andrews and Bobby Ball as his fellow security guards in a Salford shopping mall.

Gentle, old-fashioned and predictable, Take Me Out presenter Paddy McGuinness also pops up as a copper after the slack security men have to cope with an actual robbery.

Royle Family creator Caroline Aherne teams up with Mrs Biggs writer Jeff Pope for this very entertaining comedy about security guards working the night shift in a shut-up shopping centre. Astute casting puts Mrs Brown's Boys star Brendan O'Carroll alongside Bobby Ball, Dean Andrews and Peter Wight as the brainless foursome whose work-shy ways get them into serious bother. It is decidedly crude in parts but there are small moments of brilliance too, thanks to the writing and rare cast chemistry. Supposedly a one-off, it's easy to see this returning as a regular sitcom.

Fay Ripley plays a drunken, shambolic mess of a human being in this likeable if lightweight comedy-drama series.

She's Christine Frances, head of human resources at the HQ of a struggling supermarket chain, holding things together only thanks to her trusty yet savagely abused PA, Sally (played by Morven Christie) - and looking as if she's finally facing the chop when a ruthlessly ambitious management troubleshooter (Holly Aird) comes to shake the firm up.

Sally herself, meanwhile, has fallen for hunky Steven (Tom Ellis), the arrogant guy who's personal assistant to this new bigwig - only to find he and bossy-drawers have more than just a working relationship.

A strong cast also includes Jenny Agutter, Neil Stuke, Peter Wight and Saikat Ahamed.