Jack Seale

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Suzy Klein and Frank Skinner conclude their hands-on history of popular British entertainment. If you don't mind the chummy flippancy (that Phil and Kirstie thing of cheerily bickering on the voiceover - stop it!) and the indulgence of Klein and Skinner having a go at everything, it's a stirring nostalgia trip that gets under performers' skins rather than merely eulogising them.

While Skinner builds up to a performance as Max Miller and Klein learns to be all three Andrews Sisters, the pair also have a crack at skiffle, and Wilson, Keppel and Betty's sand dance. And Barry Cryer tells an A1 anecdote about a man being thrown out of the Windmill Club for bringing binoculars.

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The Force Awakens is here! Surely you've seen it already? If not, build the excitement still further with a sofa full of Star Wars stars. Carrie Fisher, the original Princess Leia - back for the new movie, albeit no longer as merely a princess, but as General Leia - is on the show, which is good news given her fondness for talking bluntly and frankly.

Her younger co-stars John Boyega and Daisy Ridley might be more circumspect, although Boyega has shown great wit and equanimity in the face of a few crackpots who think a story about spaceships and aliens shouldn't feature black actors.

Also chatting, and singing: Kylie Minogue.

Who works and who stays at home? Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan's almanac of parenting stress reaches the stage where careers and childcare clash. She considers returning to teaching, despite the younger kid only being four months old, while he considers leaving his job, despite earning all their money. As is traditional in a sitcom-with-a-story, this penultimate episode delivers a crisis: both stars have the acting chops to make the anguish real without losing laughs.

It's three years since series eight, yet Mark and Jez must remain forever young, so as the final run starts we're only six months on from Dobbygeddon. Mark arrives at Super Hans's stag do still despising his old flatmate: he's unmoved when he then sees the spectacular low that is Jez's new gaff. Will he stick with cartoonishly cardiganed replacement bro Jerry (Tim Key), or let Jez come home? Kenco and William Morris, or Twirls and Octopussy? A relatively restrained opener but it still hums with disgustingly funny lines.

The return of Dapper Laughs

Daniel O'Reilly on his Newsnight mauling and why he needs to "be a bit more careful".

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The broad comedy about a pompous and deluded "community leader" returns, with guest stars in the new series including Ronni Ancona, Tyger Drew-Honey, Steve Furst and, in this episode, Peter Bowles, who conforms to type by playing the lord of the local manor.

The stately home has put on an exhibition of Indian treasures collected during the Raj, something that piques the interest of both Mr Khan (Adil Ray) and his mother-in-law Naani (Adlyn Ross). But while Mr Khan sees a chance to better himself by rubbing shoulders with the aristocracy, Naani wants to profit in a rather more direct way.

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Maggie Smith doesn't need to do chat shows, so she usually doesn't. The latest coup for Graham Norton is that he's persuaded Smith to grace a TV sofa for the first time in 42 years, to discuss her new film, Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van - and to discuss the end of Downton Abbey, no doubt.

Alongside the Dame are her co-star Alex Jennings; Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, the two leads in new chef drama Burnt; and the ever-regal Cindy Crawford, who's 50 next year and has a coffee-table photo-memoir out. Justin Bieber more or less provides music.

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney convert their fearless comedy from salty romp to black farce: season two opens with a rancorous wetting of the baby's head, at which the flaws of Sharon and Rob's families are exposed. It's that icy early phase of parenting where you can't just get on with child-rearing, because a thousand other things intrude. But Catastrophe can look serious adult frustrations in the eye and cackle, because it's underpinned by the snappy couple's gorgeous "us v world" chemistry. Miraculous.

After a couple of PhotoShopped false starts on social media, today actually is Back To The Future Day: 21 October 2015, the date travelled to by Doc and Marty in Back To The Future Part II. The movie foresaw a world with hoverboards and multi-screen viewing; it didn't predict Keith Lemon, but perhaps it was just being tactful. Gino d'Acampo, Ashley Roberts and [p[Paddy McGuinness] lend their weight to Lemon's special tribute, which sits lump-like in the middle of a screening of the whole film trilogy.

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Nothing wrong with an old-fashioned sitcom, and set-ups don't come much comfier than a shop staffed by eccentrics. Bull is the surname of both lead characters: siblings, played by Robert Lindsay and Maureen Lipman, who sell antiques. He's extravagant and creosote-brown, like a certain wheeler-dealing TV presenter, while she chain-smokes and only pays attention when necessary. Their young assistants are stupid (Naz Osmanoglu) and nervous (Claudia Jessie).

What's not so traditional is the chaotic script, which aims for quirky but more often hits baffling. Matt Lucas lifts this opener with a guest turn as a neighbouring shopkeeper who's obsessed with bossa nova.