Benidorm

Derren Litten's comedy showcases a certain kind of lobster-coloured all-Englishness that can only be found abroad nowadays. It's broad rather than acute, and occasionally hidebound (an Indian trainee doctor from Varanesi who speaks no English? No way), but a familiar cast, including Johnny Vegas and Steve Pemberton, help make for viewing as comfy as a carton of chips. This week, Madge runs into her marginally less horrible, estranged daughter Valda, while Robin Askwith, he of the Confessions of . . . series, crops up as a typically conniving cockney chancer.

It's more of the same ribaldry as the third series of the comedy about the Spanish resort continues. Madge (Shelia Reid) is uneasy when her estranged daughter Valda (Lorraine Bruce) turns up in the sunny resort and is convinced that she is there only for Mel's (Geoffrey Hutchings) money. Though that should be the least of her worries as a professional con man (Robin Askwith) arrives.

Madge, who contributes a memorable karaoke spot to tonight's episode, must be one of the most hateful characters ever to appear in a comedy.

Another of her estranged daughters turns up unexpectedly at the hotel tonight, with her new husband in tow - an Indian doctor who speaks no English.

Along with the ongoing storyline that sees Geoff (Johnny Vegas) trying to persuade folk that he's not gay, it's like something out of the 1970s.

And there's another blast from the past as guest star Robin Askwith (from the Confessions Of... films) checks in tonight playing a cockney conman. He's the best thing in the show, with a great character face that doesn't look lived-in so much as completely trashed by squatters. He'll be hoping no one at the Solanas asks, "Can I carry your bags?"