Adrian Chiles

Catherine Tate and Adrian Chiles split up

TV presenter Adrian Chiles and comedian Catherine Tate have broken up, a year after going public with their relationship.

Catherine Tate goes on date with Adrian Chiles

Catherine Tate isn't bovvered who sees her looking loved-up on a stroll in a Los Angeles park with her fella Adrian Chiles.

Catherine Tate & Adrian Chiles out in California

Catherine Tate and Adrian Chiles take a romantic stroll.

Sky1's new comedy Moone Boy is now officially the funniest thing to come out of Ireland since Roy Keane's unconcealable disdain for Adrian Chiles's chummy banter. And having the Sultans Of Ping FC's Where's Me Jumper for its theme is surely the finest use of music since Tony Soprano bowed out to Don't Stop Believin'.

But it's a bit harsh that some people are calling Moone Boy Ireland's way of saying sorry for Mrs Brown's Boys. Mrs B might be crass and smutty but her show does what it does brilliantly. And BBC1's prime-time repeats are still beating allcomers on a Friday.

As for Moone Boy I have a couple of apologies. One, I didn't praise young David Rawle nearly enough for his amazing breakthrough performance as Martin Moone. And two, I failed to clock the name of the hairdressing salon until well into episode two. Scissors Palace. Sure, that's just lovely work.

Catherine Tate dated Adrian Chiles during Euro 2012

Funnygirl Catherine Tate flew out for a date with secret love Adrian Chiles while he was presenting TV coverage of Euro 2012, The Sun can reveal.

Catherine Tate dating Adrian Chiles

Telly stars Adrian Chiles and Catherine Tate make fine sweethearts as they reveal their love to the world.

When Harry Hill's TV Burp aired for the final time I mentioned that I hoped that ITV1 would cancel the show rather than find someone else to take over as host because it simply would not be the same. It seems ITV1 agreed. That said, instead of ressurecting TV Burp with a new host they're just ripped the entire format for this new sports satire starring Alistair McGowan.

Obviously, You Cannot Be Serious! covers different topics and has a different host, but the format is almost identical. The show begins with a Have I Got News for You style weekly round up featuring funny clips - most of the comedy comes from looking at recent TV footage (along with voice-over impressions), special guests making cameos and the show ends in a song. However, given that Harry Hill is credited as an executive producer, perhaps these similarities are not surprising. At least there's no fight in the middle, otherwise the show might have breached copyright law.

There are some unique touches, however, that make this show differ from its predecessor.

For starters, due to McGowan's impressionist abilities, he can do the voice of Adrian Chiles while interviewing himself playing Roy Hodgson on a pre-recorded segement (complete with a large false nose).

For me, though, the similarities outweigh the originality. I can understand why ITV1 wants to replicate the success of TV Burp, but I wished they could do something a bit more inspiring. The show's also fundamentally flawed. Namely, everyone who owns a TV set would have a slight interest in watching TV Burp, but not all TV viewers are keen on sport, so I would presume that audience figures may be hampered...

And finally, I've got another complaint: you know the sketch featuring Far Eastern athletes knocking into hurdles? I don't mind seeing the footage, but did they really have to call one of the athletes Lu Sing Now?

I'm not the only one a little uncomfortable, right?

Now in its 43rd series, amazingly, little has changed since Have I Got News For You was forced to ditch scandal-hit Angus Deayton as host for the successful but problematic "guest host" format. The thinking is that HIGNFY is kept fresh by having different celebs hosting the show every week, Saturday Night Live-style, and that's true to an extent-but it also means you have boring "safe pair of hands" episodes (here Stephen Mangan, usually Alexander Armstrong) more than the truly memorable hosts (like Boris Johnson or Bruce Forsyth). It also irritates me that the show still keeps in the "mistakes" a guest hosts make during the live recording, as if it's still a novelty having a "non-professional" sitting in the hot-seat and a fluffing a line or two. Isn't this the accepted format of the show now? Why are the still showing us what amounts to bloopers in the show itself?

HIGNFY is still incredibly popular and remains an entertaining watch, but I find myself wishing it would be overhauled. Ian Hislop and Paul Merton have been team captains for so long their shtick is fairly predictable, especially in the latter's case with his surreal meanderings. But more worrying than that, if we're honest HIGNFY is a much less perceptive satirical show than its reputation has us believe. If you note the type of jokes that are made off-the-cuff, or the writers have scripted for the guest host to read off the autocue, the majority of them are silly jibes about a particular famous person's public persona or physical looks. (Politician Eric Pickles is a particular target these days, just because he's fat. I guess Pickles is John Prescott's replacement because they've had the ex-Deputy PM on the show and now we know he's actually a straight-thinking and amusing man.)

Obviously not every joke can be a vividly perceptive gem that tackles the hot issues of the day in a fresh way, but I get the feeling that HIGNFY has less and less to say of real merit these days. It's like everyone who appears on it just follows the pattern they've seen play out hundreds of times, afraid or just unable to take the show down a different path. Why not alter some of the rounds, ditch some of the weaker ones, or bring in a few new ideas? For instance, why is there still a "guest publication" in the Missing Words round? Wasn't that a one-series joke that never got retired? Its weekly inclusion just removes the opportunity for a politically-based joke when the missing word has something to do with a niche topic like raisins instead of something topical and of public interest.

It just feels like HIGNFY could do with a facelift, because it's been around for so long that viewers find it comforting (some people have never known a world without HIGNFY, remember!), and treat it with a reverence it perhaps doesn't deserve anymore. It probably helps that there's no admirable challenger out there, with Channel 4's disappointing 10 O'Clock Live and Adrian Chiles' That Sunday Night Show its closest competitors. In comparison to both, HIGNFY remains genius.

Nice to see Adrian Chiles back making programmes for grown-ups who aren't making breakfast. But what a pity he allowed the first of a new series of That ­Sunday Night Show to be dominated by the preposterous The Only Way Is Essex star Gemma Collins. I'm so sick of being asked to laugh at allegedly lovable dimwits.

Adrian Chiles interview

Adrian Chiles returns with a mix of celebrity guests to mull over recent happenings in his topical chat series That Sunday Night Show...