Jack Seale

Emma Kennedy is unlucky that her childhood-memoir sitcom comes so soon after Raised By Wolves and Cradle To Grave, but it doesn't help itself by sticking to such well-worn ground: tonight, Dad (Dan Skinner) fails to dissuade Mum (Katherine Parkinson) from learning to drive, while 10-year-old Emma (the ace Lucy Hutchinson) hunts for the sender of her first Valentine. The characters are well acted, but are either familiar types or wacky wildcards, and feel secondary to the light-brown 1970s nostalgia.

Whatever happened to Jeremy Clarkson? He doesn't seem to have been on TV much lately but here he is, hosting the first edition of the unstoppable topical quiz's 50th series. Expect zingers about the refugee crisis and Jeremy Corbyn's sandals, plus perhaps some insight into what his friend David Cameron gets up to in the Oxfordshire countryside. Flanking the Jezmeister are regular captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton, as well as Pointless star Richard Osman and Camilla Long.

Danger Mouse: inside the remaking of a kids' classic

The rodent spy returns for 2015 with a slick new look and the voice of Alexander Armstrong. As we find when we visit the vocal booth though, the cartoon's anarchic spirit remains.

Danny Baker's cosy sitcom-memoir is starting to feel more like a TV show than a pile of anecdotes, with not quite so many gags you'd say were cliched or telegraphed if an unknown writer had invented them. Young Danny rashly agrees to buy a hot VCR - has he inherited the knack of quickly finding a few quid? Meanwhile, magic patriarch Fred tries to steal a shipment of sherry from under the noses of the docks' new jobsworth security guards. Peter Kay's south London accent is bedding in too, slowly.

Tom Hardy is the big draw as the hooting jabberfest returns. He's hawking his split-screen, award-baiting new dual role as both Ronnie and Reggie Kray in Legend - although once you've seen his Kray twins compared on social media to Chris Morris and Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan, you can't unsee it. Also bouncing on to the sofa is Demi Lovato, who hit the ground running on her previous appearance by swigging Dr Pepper straight from a two-litre bottle and cracking jokes about Simon Cowell's chest hair.

Back for a full series despite last year's pilot, this retrograde sitcom follows the antics of a group of mountain rescue volunteers in the Highlands. That it's static, stagey and not really about anything - they don't do any rescuing tonight, preferring to stay in the pub in front of the live studio audience - wouldn't be a problem if the jokes were belters. But they're half-hearted, old or just baffling, driven by some weak characterisation. Even Sharon Rooney and Doon Mackichan are made to look mediocre.

Rarely does this parlour game deliver an unfunny episode ... and it hasn't done that this week. One of WILTY's strengths is drawing out the immaculate timing that lays dormant in non-comedians: Moira Stuart says nothing for several minutes, before authoritatively laying down one of the funniest ad-libs of the night. Her description of how she enjoys a crispy jacket spud smothered in molten KitKat is also heavenly. Plus, did Danny Dyer really wear a zebra mask on a trip to the zoo to deter autograph-hunters?

Radio Times review

As a civilisation, we're starting to realise that asking questions about news or trivia from behind a desk isn't the best way to wring semi-improvised laughs out of moderately popular comedians. Far wiser to make them do something less restrictive, where the thing itself is funny before anyone starts. So we come to this fun new jolly, where titular Taskmaster Greg Davies - flanked by the show's creator Alex Horne - awards comics marks for eating as much watermelon as they can in a minute, emptying a bathtub without pulling the plug out, or painting a horse while riding a horse.

The comfortingly familiar guests are Frank Skinner, Josh Widdicombe, Roisin Conaty, Romesh Ranganathan and Tim Key. Skinner is a good weathervane, since he's been around far too long to bother laughing politely at unfunny jokes. Here, he laughs a lot.

Last in the run of a sitcom that's a kind of apologetic British remake of Two And A Half Men, though it feels more like something from the 1990s on ITV. Up to now it's been a vicious circle of familiar characters and consequently underpowered gags. Tonight, the chalk/cheese twentysomething brothers who are surrogate parents to a troubled younger sibling are surprised by the arrival of their unreliable father. Feckless lothario Toby (Johnny Flynn) is innocently delighted; Tolstoy-reading fusspot Dan (Ben Ashenden) is embittered.

A second series of what amounts to a vast dressing-up box for the former stars of Horrible Histories. Patient, practical Debbie (Martha Howe-Douglas) continues to straddle two lives: mundane housewifery in Birmingham and troubleshooting in the magical realm she accesses through a portal in her cupboard. The one-shot spoofs and sly pop culture references are underpinned by scripts with classic comedy chops, performed by a cast who have the talent to fill this canvas with colour.