Dominic Cavendish

Armstrong and Miller: interview

As a clip of re-formed duo Armstrong and Miller goes nuclear on YouTube, the pair discuss their return to their BBC comedy sketch show.

It's right to love 'The Office', but foolish to revere

The longer you look at it, the more it looks like a work of art. It touches something universal and true about human behaviour in the life-sapping confines of the workplace. Where will it all end, though? The Office was first broadcast in the summer of 2001. We haven't reached the 10th anniversary yet and already the BBC is rolling out the red carpet.

We don't tend to do five syllable English surnames, let alone stick names that long in the title of brand-new comedy shows. All power then to Peter Serafinowicz's (Polish) ethnic elbow for managing to get his name in lights for what promises to be a reliably entertaining series of sketch comedy.

As a tried and tested impressionist, Serafinowicz will be impersonating such stars as Al Pacino and Simon Cowell - while introducing a crop of characters from incompetent private detective Brian Butterfield to Michael-6, robot chat show host.

Mitchell and Webb Review

The radio show features topical humour without trying too hard to be up-to-the-minute, delivers satisfyingly dark material without striving to shock, and has a presiding intelligence that makes you want to weep with gratitude.

Gorman's show stood out a mile at Edinburgh last year. He had acted on an impulse that most of us would leave well alone and decided to track down all his namesakes. The highs and lows of his search for other Dave Gormans were packed into a nerdily hilarious lecture, complete with projections and voiceovers. On TV, the impact is diminished; the show has simply been recorded in front of a studio audience and elongated to fit six episodes. Clearly the budget was tight. What might have been a globetrotting extravaganza in keeping with the lunatic ambition of Gorman's project is instead a nondescript-looking, if absorbing, sideshow.