Dick Emery

Dick Emery (BBC1) is drag to the roots: when he's in trousers, he's resting. I like the way dainty observation erupts into flagrant femme gestures - he flutters an eyebrow, flutes a voice, minces a walk and then suddenly bashes a door open with his hip - but the sketches are just vehicles.

Yes, Dick Emery was back on BBC television last night with yet another armful of impersonations from his grotesque comic gallery. Some of them were brilliantly funny, but others were as dull as an opinion poll. This often attractive and usually lively show is made up of whirling bits and pieces, yoked together by song and dance - a formula so simple that it can be disastrous.