Graham Kibble-White

David Mitchell, 10 O'Clock Live - interview

David Mitchell says of 10 O'Clock Live... "it's different from anything I've done before, because you can't write jokes for it."

Dave Gorman interview

The comedy show intent on unearthing genius ideas returns, but as host Dave Gorman reveals, it's all change for series two...

Alan Davies interview

The Jonathan Creek star swaps his duffle coat for whites in a new BBC2 sitcom in which he plays a past-his-prime chef...

Rouge awakening

I've got to be honest and say I have conflicting feelings. I'd never call myself a Red Dwarf fan, but I guess I'm enough of a fan to hold an opinion on when I think the original series stopped being truly great. Many of the problems that dogged its latter years are gone, here. There's a cohesive story, for one, and the characters are allowed once more to do - well - just what we want to see them doing. Hey, even the original font is back!

Another David Renwick Interview

The Off The Telly website interviews the writer of the show about the new 2008 Christmas special.

Fool If You Think It's Over

Off The Telly reports on the struggle to bring Joking Apart out on DVD in this excellent article. Includes interviews with Robert Bathurst, Steven Moffat and Craig Robins, the man who organised the DVD release.

When the stand-out moment from a new comedy is a sequence involving funny dancing, things aren't going great. Particularly when said comedy has been perhaps the most eagerly anticipated of the year. But then, let's face it, when you pick over the bones the omens weren't great for Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere.

Like so much regular viewing on telly, Gash's main strength has to be its ubiquity. Already it's marked out as the programme I watch before the lights go off and I make my way up to bed. And for me, there it will stay, because despite the efforts of Armando Iannucci, my conversations are still far more likely to start: "So what about that I'm A Celebrity then, eh?"

OK, so we're nit-picking here, but it's hard to help yourself when you're watching such a limp version of a previously excellent series. Where Only Fools and Horses used to be fast, funny and confident, it's now a kind of embarrassing footnote that serves only to deflate the latter half of Christmas Day.

For this reviewer, anyway, Look Around You has remained terribly one-note. It appears that the comedy is supposed to stem from the juxtaposition of earnest presentation and nonsensical content. The few "proper" gags that have been slotted in alongside this approach have themselves been laboured and uninspiring.