Gareth McLean

James Acaster interview

"I had a meltdown on Bake Off - I'd never handle Strictly."

David Cross interview

Comic and actor David Cross talks the unsurprising rise of Donald Trump, the stupidity of George W. Bush - and playing some of the dumbest characters ever written for TV.

Sharon Horgan on her production company

Pulling writer Sharon Horgan and producer Clelia Mountford talk branded content, transatlantic TV, and taking control of their own projects.

Why did The League of Gentlemen choose to reform on HH?

Find out why Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Mark Gatiss are working together on the popular kids show.

Tracy-Ann Oberman tests your soap knowledge

The actor and writer explains why she's bringing the first soap quiz show to radio with Sud's Law.

Katherine Jakeways' tale of a small town preparing for a talent show is a comedy cracker. Penelope Wilton, Mackenzie Crook and Sheila Hancock lead the cast in what is a tender look at British eccentricity, community and a slideshow featuring inappropriate images of Victorian ladies, and also a very funny half-hour.

A paean to Pulling

The BBC didn't appreciate that Pulling was the best comedy on TV - but the final episode on Sunday confirms its utter brilliance.

The problem with Gavin and Stacey - other than James Corden's penchant for making a prat of himself at awards ceremonies - is not that it's terrible. It isn't. It's overrated but it can actually be rather sweet, albeit with self-consciously saucy bits (An old lady talking about drugs! How risque!) and an irksome jarring inauthenticity. Still, like the mint Baileys that so beguiles Bryn (Rob Brydon), Corden and Ruth Jones's comedy is something of an acquired taste and one acquired by rather a lot of people.

Whether it is the scheduling proximity of this short to the feature-length The Curse of the Were-Rabbit or simply because you expect such marvellous things from Nick Park and Aardman Animations, there's something underwhelming about the latest outing for one man and his dog. It's lovingly crafted, replete with rewarding little details, references and homage (the pair's bakery is Top Bun) and Sally Lindsay's Piella Bakewell is suitably monstrous, but the story - of a serial killer (or possibly cereal killer) who is battering bakers to death with their own rolling pins - fails to really fly, not least because it's only half an hour long. Still, it's a sweet and wholesome distraction between the woe in EastEnders.

Interview with ITV Drama Controller

Laura Mackie on Moving Wallpaper and Echo Beach: "Would I commission that again? Yes I would. Because it was Tony Jordan, it was Kudos, it was an absolute passion project for Tony. Of course we had conversations about television about television, and we knew the two shows were pointing in slightly different directions - and I think clearly Echo Beach didn't deliver in the way we hoped. But what we felt standing back from it was that elements of Echo Beach, when woven into Moving Wallpaper, actually worked very well."