Benidorm

Benidorm - Series 3, Episode 1 Preview

Ever since Johnny Vegas confessed to a lively online role-playing life, in which he entered chatrooms under the pseudonym "Bashful", you get the feeling script-writers have been looking to explore the notion again. Tonight, they finally do, as Geoff goes online dating, while his mother canvasses opinions as to whether or not he might be gay. A strange mixture of home truths and Carry On humour, Benidorm feels high-quality and low-rent, sometimes at the same time. Tim Healy's guest spot is certainly one to remember.

It's brash, bold and, despite its poor innuendos and obvious crudeness, at times quite brilliant in its sending-up of the working-class stereotype of the popular Spanish tourist destination. In tonight's second episode of the third series, Mick (Steve Pemberton) and Janice (Siobhan Finneran) are having relationship troubles and Brandy (Sheridan Smith) plays a practical joke on the bumbling Martin (Nicholas Burns).

Sheridan Smith stars in the hit ITV comedy based in a holiday resort.

You can take the girl out of Two Packets of Lager and a Pint of Crisps, but you can't take the, er, lager and crisps out of the girl... Indeed, in tonight's edition of this sunny sitcom, Sheridan Smith concocts the sort of prank that she'd normally play on Will Mellor or Ralf Little. However, with neither of them around, she stitches up a gullible Martin, who ends up legging it through a tourist attraction in the nip...