Tim Vine

Last year it looked like curtains for Lee Mack and Tim Vine's brightly lit one-liner-thon. But lo, it's back - and a jolly good thing too, for this flatmates sitcom is a cheesy guilty pleasure. In this opener, staid old Tim goes clubbing, which of course leads to disaster - he returns to Lee's wearing the wrong coat, which happens to be full of drugs.

As team captain on Would I Lie To You?, as well his mega stand-up career and numerous other TV appearances, Lee Mack must have a bottomless well of gags in his back yard - and those jokes just keep on coming.

Now with a Rose D'Or and a Royal Television Award under its scruffy belt, his happy-go-lucky sitcom returns for series four and a six-week run.

In tonight's episode the scruffy belt in question belongs to an oversized trench coat that Lee's best mate Tim (Tim Vine) has mistakenly picked up from a ­nightclub cloakroom.

"You look like two dwarves with one cinema ticket," Lee tells Tim. ­Unfortunately, the coat isn't his, and neither is the large plastic bag full of cocaine that Tim finds stashed in the pocket.

How to return the drugs to their rightful owner before he comes looking for them is another unlikely problem for the hapless pair - as well as for Tim's ditzy girfriend Daisy (Katy Wix).

It's also the set-up for more of the kind of class A one-liners that make this half hour absolutely whizz past each week.

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