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Guests revealed for Harry Hill's new Teatime show

The guests have been revealed for Harry Hill's new comedy show, Harry Hill's Teatime which is being made by Sky. They are Joey Essex, Gok Wan, Emilia Fox, Martin Kemp, Jason Donovan and Paul Hollywood.

Self-described camp Gok Wan lookalike Michael McIntyre heads off stage and onto a comfy-looking sofa as he becomes the latest celebrity to take a shot at fronting a chatshow. These things are completely awful when they don't work - the Beeb is probably still baring scars from Davina - and Michael isn't exactly being eased in gently, with mouthy pot stirrer Lily Allen and grumpy old man Lord Sugar among his first guests.

Still, Michael has been able to elicit chuckles from both comedy sophisticates and families just looking for something on TV to pass the time, so we're optimistic about this being watchable. Plus, he's got Sir Terry Wogan on as his third guest to help calm things down to a Radio 2 level of chill if need be. It's worth tuning in to for the sake of curiosity alone.

Alan Carr interview

At the TTG Travel Awards 2013, the comic revealed that he didn't like cruises but would like to travel with Gok Wan, Channing Tatum and Bradley Cooper.

Last year's specstacular saw Alan do impressions taking the mickey out of easy targets Cher Lloyd, the Beckhams and Wills and Kate.

This year he'll be getting up to more festive fooling around, party games and sketches with the help of his guest mates.

Former Radio 2 pal Melanie Sykes, Jonathan Ross, Jimmy Carr, Jack Whitehall, Christine Bleakley, Gok Wan and Bruno Mars join in the New Year fun.

Then there's Rylan Clark - one of the few guests who can make Alan look butch by comparison.

The line-up might not be as A-list as Graham Norton's, but this is exactly the kind of party you'd want to be invited to.

The toothy Alan Carr returns with - impressively if a little surprisingly - a ninth series of his entertainment chat show, and tonight he's joined by US popstrel Pink, who'll be giving an exclusive performance of her new single Blow Me (One Last Kiss). Gok Wan, the British high street's ally, is also on Carr's sofa, chatting about his forthcoming Channel 4 dating show Baggage.

The anti-Piers Morgan returns with a new series of giggle and chat. Carr's effort is likely to be a more frothy and glamorous affair, as the inescapable Gok Wan joins him for a gossip about his new dating show, while Pink performs her new single. Camp laughs guaranteed, or your money back.

Bespectacled funnyman Carr hosts a party-themed special, with guests including Jonathan Ross, comedian Micky Flanagan, and Strictly's Alesha Dixon, who proved herself fond of a tipple when she appeared on Carr's chat show a few weeks ago and later apologised for a string of indiscreet comments. Also popping up are Channel 4 colleagues Heston Blumenthal, Gok Wan and Kirstie Allsopp, while there's live music from JLS and The Ting Tings. We're promised themed sketches including a Royal Wedding spoof with Carr and David Walliams as the newlyweds.

It's rare to find impressionists whose material matches their talent but for most of this enjoyable half-hour programme Jon Culshaw and Debra Stephenson have pulled it off. Both find moments to shine. Culshaw nails fashion consultant Gok Wan's slangy lingo and makes a suitably narcissistic Elton John. Stephenson shows us what it would be like to be stuck in a forest with Kirstie Allsopp and excels with her uncanny take on a breathless squinty-eyed Claudia Winkleman.

Jon Culshaw and Debra Stephenson offer up another 30 minutes of pretending to be other people. When the show hits home, as in a MasterChef skit where John Torode and Gregg Wallace reckon the contestants are "like cows at an abattoir", there's much fun to be had. Paul McCartney reforming the Fab Four with "all of the surviving Beatles except Ringo" and the Gok Wan wok gun also hit the mark. At other times, though, don't be surprised if your attention drifts: the show is consistently inventive without necessarily being consistently funny.

Putting the boob-grabbing former queens of TV on Curb-style mockumentary seems as godawful an idea as Monkey Tennis or Robson Green's Extreme Fishing (which actually happened).

Yet this bizarre, sometimes hilarious show works unexpectedly well, with the pair squabbling and squawking, bemoaning Gok Wan's popularity and plumbing the depths of celebrity endorsement.

Once the high priestesses of makeover TV and initially watchable despite their 'tell-it-like-it-is' rudeness, we find Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine attempting to recapture former glories in From Boom to Bust (see what they did there with the title?)

In Thursday's opener, the fashionistas gunned for a return to the limelight in the shape of a Cillit Bang ad only for their decline on the celebrity stock market to torpedo the deal and lose the duo their longstanding agent.

Rent-a-celebs such as Lulu and Dr Fox popped up as talking heads and familiar comedians including Katy Wix (Not Going Out) and Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley) portrayed Trinny and Susannah's long-suffering staff.

At an hour, it was a little too long to sustain the joke but with teetotal Trin and Chardonnay-quaffing Suze impressively game for self-parody, it might be the vehicle they need to knock Gok off the makeover perch.