Caroline Frost

A coalition government working in perfect disharmony

Watching this bunch in action brought into sharp relief just how hard Iannucci must have worked for the well-received Veep to find its own, slightly mellower feet. It must be a particularly British thing to enjoy with such bottomless glee the schadenfreude of such debasing, wound-picking asides, and that's before a certain Mr Tucker makes his return to the political arena next week...

Robert Webb remembers his own slight wedding disaster

Only one tiny thing went wrong when Robert Webb, star of The Wedding Video, got married himself...

Twenty Twelve: One more thing left unfinished

The writers left us dangling on the edge of a conversation between Ian and Sally, a cruel trick for viewers, but a fitting metaphor for the team who, let's face it, haven't properly signed off on anything else.

Ab Fab: A tired team running out of ideas

The trick to filling in 30 minutes of airtime with 15 minutes of material seemed to be, quite literally, often saying the same line twice and hoping we wouldn't notice.

Twenty Twelve review

With the end of the Games only a month away now, one of the things I'm already preparing to miss is Twenty Twelve.

Video: Studio Tinto offers his interpretation of the QI titles

Mr Tinto (Studio to his friends?) has reinterpreted the title sequence to one of his favourite programmes, QI, because, in his words, "I have never liked the opening credits: they just don't do the programme justice in my opinion.

Inbetweeners writer quashes fourth series rumours

The Inbetweeners writer Iain Morris has poured scorn on reports that his television creation is set for a fourth series.

Ricky Gervais is familiar but compassionate in Derek

A bit like Bob Geldof, whatever you think of some of Ricky Gervais's outbursts, he's still one of the good guys - who seems to want help create a world where, as Derek remembered Joan telling him through his tears, "kindness is magic, more important than being good-looking or clever."

Tonight's TV pick: The Matt Lucas Awards

Matt Lucas says he was in the mood to do something "a bit less rude" than his cavorting with Walliams, and it's certainly that.

Alfred Molina and Dawn French are back as the incredibly inactive couple of the title. This week sees Roger and Val returning from a wedding, and much musing on Roger's forthcoming tribunal, and the prospect of a new job for Val. There are in-jokes, debates, reminiscences on anything and everything - except the still-ached-for loss of their baby.

The whole thing is a blatant homage to Alan Bennett's glorious soliloquies of Cream Cracker under the Settee and co, with the silences as telling as the humour, and it's best to go in viewing with that kind of gentle, undulating, un-fireworky telly treat in mind.