Rachel Aroesti

The second episode of Ullman's new sketch show sees a deviant Dame Judi Dench return to wreak more senseless havoc upon an adoring public, a ludicrously practical (in the style of French and Saunders's "stuff and nonsense" ladies) Duchess of Cornwall babysit Prince George, and some middle Englanders become accidental people-traffickers after a trip across the Channel. Ullman is a brilliant mimic, but her subject matter can feel slightly random and the skits are strangely structured, often resulting in no discernible punchline.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's monologue Fleabag, told by a free-wheeling, porn-obsessed woman, marked her out as one to watch when it debuted in 2013. Crashing is her first TV script: a flatshare sitcom with a fresh lick of grimy despair. Set in an old hospital, it follows a gaggle of property guardians as they navigate lives made more testing by their dilapidated discount digs - and, perhaps, the fact that many of them are the sort of flamboyantly affected sociopaths comedy commissioners can't seem to get enough of these days.

Julia Davis's gothic spoof returns for a two-part special. This opening hour sees evil housekeeper Dorothy determined to disrupt Helene and Dr Foggerty's marriage, while keeping master Edmund incapacitated with laudanum. Though this series provides Davis with the perfect setting in which to cultivate the bizarre idioms and stomach-turning adjectives that peppered Nighty Night, without the latter's acute social observation, Hunderby's appeal seems limited to her grotesque linguistic invention - and rather repetitive for it.

With Sharon having kicked Rob out after he came clean about what happened at work with the flirty French woman, the second series of Horgan and Delaney's sitcom sees the pair thrown into a simulacrum of their dysfunctional single lives of about three years ago. Rob Delaney might be a capable foil, but Sharon Horgan is the real draw here; in her namesake she has created one of the most self-possessed, aspirational and intentionally funny women on television since Elaine in Seinfeld.

Round two of Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney's deeply funny romcom continues, as the pair visit Paris in order to revive their sex life. But not even a Channel crossing can curb their squabbling, especially with Sharon's post-pregnancy body a ticket to both traumatic boob issues and infuriating pharmacy visits. Despite mining sitcom tropes of yore (language barriers; dodgy interactions with masseuses), its diligent cataloguing of emotional minutiae reroutes it into something that feels relevant and real.

The Kennedys: more than just rose-tinted memories

Like Cradle To Grave and Danny And The Human Zoo, Emma Kennedy's sitcom mines a 70s childhood, but behind the nostalgia, there's a lot that is very timely.

This period sitcom is based on writer Emma Kennedy's account of her 70s childhood, and is a riotous look at "new town" life through the eyes of 10-year-old Emma. Autobiographical details take a backseat to the inherent comedy of the era itself - a time when aspirational consumption collided with guileless English provincialism. In this opener, Emma's mother (Katherine Parkinson) and dad (Dan "Angelos Epithemiou" Skinner) host a gathering, Abigail's Party-style.

There are seven comedians behind what is by far the funniest of this year's BBC Comedy Feed pilots: the members of sketch trio Sheeps (Liam Williams, Alastair Roberts, Daran Johnson); Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou (who perform together as Mother And Baby); the latter's brother Jamie, and Australian comic Claudia O'Doherty. From this network of comedy talent springs sharp, silly, strange skits that radiate confidence and wit. If the long-floundering Great British sketch show has any chance of relevancy again, this is it.

Writer Andrew Mettam's BBC Comedy Feed follows Hattie, a teenage girl hauled back into the bosom of her family after a hedonistic few weeks at university. Now under house arrest in Yorkshire, Hattie plots her escape, determined to get back to the never-explained trouble her wild ways have got her into. While the show's premise isn't totally sensical - and the stifling suburbia neither accurate nor dark enough to be properly entertaining - the sweetly surprising ending hints at some potential charm.

Javone Prince: 'It's lovely to make people belly laugh'

The PhoneShop star Javone Prince hopes to shake up primetime with a new BBC Two sketch show about young black Britain.