David Stubbs (II)

Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander on Rev.

With none of the otherworldly airs or whisky-soaked vices of stereotyped TV priests, this thoughtful comedy shows the day-to-day reality of a religious calling: 'It's f***ing hard!'

For pure imagination, there's currently little to match Chris Bran and Justin Chubb's sitcom about the parochial island vaguely inspired by their native Guernsey. This week, the ineffectually autocratic Arbiter Maven tries to stop residents from celebrating the festival of Nacken. They ignore him, sneaking off to the Moosic tavern for a night of revelry, with entertainment provided by Master Croog and Rex Camalbeeter. Trouble ensues, however, when a certain someone is awoken. Rob Brydon guests.

A new season of the Wipe is always welcome. Each week, Brooker casts his customarily jaundiced eye across the worlds of the media, politics and the internet, as well as developments in TV, cinema, computer games and social media. Part of his success is that he doesn't hog the show but gets in good wingmen. Tonight's opener features contributions by comedians Jake Yapp and Brian Limond of Limmy's Show, as well as regular guest and American cultural correspondent Doug Stanhope.

A welcome return of the surreal comedy set on the fictional island of Jinsy. In the opener of this double bill, Arbiter Maven (Justin Chubb) is due for his Follication Ceremony, but his vanity gets the better of him as he uses a hair potion whose growth properties rage out of control. Stephen Fry guests as Dr Bevelspepp, relishing the rich dialogue, full of "herbal unguents" and suchlike. In the second, in which the island's bookkeeping is thrown into crisis by a racism scandal, Ben Miller appears as both the chief accountant and his daughter.

This series has been described as "like parachute jumping where you can't remember if you're wearing a parachute", with comedians asked to improvise a routine based on a subjects presented on a screen, which they're seeing for the first time while onstage. Tonight, taking up the challenge are British stand-up Matt Kirshen, American comedian Eddie Pepitone and Robin Williams, doing continued penance for Patch Adams and a host of similarly excruciating films. This format transports him back to his roots.

The 30th anniversary of The Meaning Of Life is another excuse for the five remaining Pythons to get together and reminisce. No need for an interviewer as they bounce observations among themselves, comparing memories of the movie's making before tut-tutting on the wider state of modern comedy production. They're looking elderly but their wits are undimmed; only when John Cleese singles out sketches in The Meaning Of Life in which Terry Jones starred as the film's weakest does a shadow of animosity flicker across proceedings.

The last in what has been a fine series, audacious in transferring The Inbetweeners' themes of male inadequacy and humiliation into a first world war setting. Tonight, the soldiers return to Rittle-On-Sea on leave, providing a welcome relief for the boys, whose man-love is almost a match for the women. George, however, finds himself regretting the advice he gives to a private who wants to become a conscientious objector, displaying no conscience at all when his tenuous "engagement" to Winky comes under threat.

Jason Byrne created and stars in this sitcom as house husband Tom Whyte, whose attempts to be a domestic god result in chaos and grief, not helped by his rambunctious sons. A joke about a malfunctioning bathroom door evokes reminders of Outnumbered, which this isn't; it's more like a superficial sequence of calamities. However, an incident concerning some baked beans is well conceived, while Father Ted's Pauline McLynn, with her old-school vegetable-boiling methods, adds solid support.

Chickens may be vulnerable to the suggestion that it's merely The Inbetweeners transferred to the first world war, but that scarcely matters as it continues to deliver the laughs. The set-up of humiliated young men and the gulf between themselves and the unimpressed opposite sex works just fine here. Tonight, a girl appears out of the blue asking to be Cecil's girlfriend, to his natural suspicion. Meanwhile, a toilet paper/poetry related incident sees Bert ejected from the cottage, only for him to land in a rather more luxurious abode.

A boon for those feeling starved of James Corden on our screens, as he and the gang return with a new series of the sports challenge show, with Red and Blue teams pitted against one another in the usual series of challenges. These include everything from a game of one-on-one football in zorb suits to a matchmaking game involving improbable celebrities including Steven Gerrard and Kim Cattrall, culminating in a speed quiz/assault course combo. Guests include Jamie Redknapp, Freddie Flintoff, Jimmy Carr and Jack Whitehall.