David Walliams

David Walliams takes a leaf out of Roald Dahl's book

David Walliams dons striped pyjamas and jumps into bed to read extracts from the books of Roald Dahl for a new ITV1 documentary about the children's author.

Video - Five minutes with: Matt Lucas

Comedian Matt Lucas talks to Matthew Stadlen about how Little Britain changed his life, working with David Walliams, growing up with alopecia and trying to be funny in public.

Matt Lucas's solo project, minus his comedy partner David Walliams, is the flip side to Room 101. Instead of nominating the worst things in various categories, his guests each week will be nominating the best - although sometimes, as tonight, they're giving awards to the worst too.

This show started life on radio in 2009 called And the Winner Is. They recorded an unbroadcast pilot last year which was staged to look like a glitzy award ceremony, but that felt too formal, and so they've taken the show in completely the other direction and it's now shot in a studio masquerading as Matt's front room. His mother's in it too, and it really is his mum - not just Matt in a wig.

It's a fun concept that ought to work - and it also deserves a Matt Lucas Award of its own for the Best Title Song For A Comedy Panel Show as well as Most Overqualified House Band. David Arnold, who's seated at the piano, didn't just write the theme tune for Little Britain and Come Fly With Me, he's most famous as the composer of the last five James Bonds.

The trouble in this first episode is the lack of chemistry between the guests. Jason Manford is a safe pair of hands on any panel show and Graeme Garden tries hard, but Henning Wehn - the self-styled German Ambassador for Comedy - is a bit of an acquired taste, and from the stony expression on Jason Manford's face, he doesn't get the joke either.

While his partner in catchphrase comedy David Walliams has been busy with headline-grabbing, charitable sporting heroics and judging Britain's Got Talent, Matt Lucas has been developing this panel show that's such an easy win of an idea, it's a wonder nobody's thought of it before. Based on Lucas's radio show And the Winner Is..., the format is a low-key awards ceremony for a diverse array of unsung topics - from "dullest pastime" to "least likely to have actually occurred Bible story".

Each week, three celebrity guests will suggest nominees for various suitably wacky categories and then fight it out with Lucas to prove their case. First up, comedy types Jason Manford, Henning Wehn and Graeme Garden debate subjects such as "dreadfullest football song ever sung" and "smuggest nation of people" (that one's between the Swedes, the Chinese and the English, they reckon). Covering topics we can all muster up an opinion on, it's essentially a more celebratory Room 101. A fun enough watch, if you can stomach the self-indulgent theme tune featuring a cartoon Lucas singing about being "that man from those other shows you like".

David Walliams meets up with Rebecca Adlington

Charity swimming champ David Walliams and double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington OBE posed for a pic at the London 2012 pool in Stratford.

Pics: Anna Friel, Steve Coogan, David Walliams on set

Anna Friel took her daughter with her for a day of filming in London, and she got to see her mother doing what she does best in The King of Soho.

David Walliams and wife Lara Stone visit No. 10

TV funnyman David Walliams visits Downing Street yesterday with sexy supermodel wife Lara Stone - who livened up the corridors of power in a tiny mini-dress.

This week's Hollywood star with something to plug is Danny DeVito, who has lent his unmistakeable voice to the title role of the latest attempt to turn a lovable Dr Seuss book into an even more lovable film - The Lorax.

But no doubt many of us will be a tad more interested to see what Ross gets out of fellow guests Simon Cowell and David Walliams, whose sparring on the Britain's Got Talent judging panel could well turn out to be the story of the sixth series, which gets under way earlier in the evening.

They're both known for being funny, frank interviewees, too, and therefore perfect sofa fodder. If that weren't enough the very brilliant Dara O'Briain drops by too, hopefully with news and inside titbits from that other talent-show juggernaut, The Apprentice.

Rounding things off, there's music from singer-songwriter Labrinth (who just happens to be signed to Cowell's record label Syco).

David Walliams interviews Eddie Izzard

'So, Eddie Izzard, were your marathons an attempt to trump my swims?'