Jason Manford

This new series sets comic voice-overs to wildlife footage. Critics may claim it's another example of lowest-common-denominator humour, in the manner of ITV1's Animals Do the Funniest Things, yet it's hard not to smile at the sight of a weight-obsessed panda and a hip hop-loving badger. The filming is provided by the BBC's Natural History Unit; the voices are those of comedians including Jason Manford (8 Out of 10 Cats) and Steve Edge (Phoenix Nights). Throughout the series various well-known people, including Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant, Barbara Windsor and Sir Tom Jones, also lend their larynxes to the creatures featured.

Remember that thing Alistair McGowan always used to do where he'd get video of footballers on mobile phones and dub over their voice ordering a pizza or something? H-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s. This is the same thing but with animals and people like Jason Manford doing silly voices not impressions. Still, it has a certain charm.

Steve Jones chairs this quiz themed on the TV archives, with Fern Britton and Jason Manford captaining two teams of celebrity guests, whose calibre this week runs to Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Pauline Quirke. Unable to decide whether it's edgily hip or comfortably staid, it includes items such as a human beatboxer rendering theme tunes, alongside a straightforward steal of the "What happened next?" bit from A Question of Sport.

Just one week after Channel 4 launched a new panel quiz about the telly, You Have Been Watching, BBC One follows suit with its own As Seen on TV. This one is chaired by the painfully unfunny Steve Jones. The outgoing This Morning presenter Fern Britton and smiley stand-up Jason Manford captain the teams. The puns and one-liners come thick and fast but sadly the (genuine) laughs are thin on the ground.

Charlie Brooker has a rival (um, sort of) to his You Have Been Watching - Steve Jones with his own celeb game show chewing over recent telly. The fact that his team captains are Fern Britton and Jason Manford, the cut-price Peter Kay, will give you an idea of the level this is pitched at.

Just hours after her 10-year run on This Morning comes to a tearful end today (we predict), Fern Britton is back on our screens as a team captain (together with Jason Manford) on a new TV trivia quiz hosted by Steve Jones.

Not quite as leftfield as Charlie Brooker's You Have Been Watching, on C4 - this is actually good fun with some cleverly inventive rounds in which the panellists show off their telly knowledge.

Bonus points tonight go to Laurence Llewellyn Bowen, for pointing out that their studio desk looks like a giant red toilet bowl. "We're like germs under the rim," he grumbles, accurately. And a prize to the wag responsible for providing us with a (possibly unintentional) shot of Steve Jones posed neatly between the nipples of a bare-chested James Corden.

Responding to the nationwide clamour for a return of Telly Addicts, the BBC have a new panel show about TV. It is positioned as a sort of Mock The Week for people who find current affairs a bit taxing. Handsome idiot Steve Jones from T4 is your host, while the deeply personable Fern Britton and Jason Manford are the team captains for a trivia quiz, while tonight's guests give you a fairly accurate read on the sort of 'hilarity' that will ensue: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Lauren Laverne, Pauline Quirke and Tina Hobley.

For fans who admire the high-wire bravura of stand-up comedy, once again Michael McIntyre introduces an impressive mix of comedians. The line-up includes John Bishop explaining the difficulties of getting rid of a fridge; Sarah Millican on the joys of divorce; Mick Ferry on an unhealthy desire to sleep with all his daughters' friends, and - last but by no means least - the headline act from Jason Manford, who does an inspired riff on his father's terrifying parenting technique. This involved telephoning the Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police who would threaten his son with prison. At the age of 7 or 8, Manford was too terrified to realise that the Chief Constable's voice bore an uncanny resemblance to that of his grandfather.

Laughs aplenty as Michael McIntyre and his pals continue their tour around Britain. Dig below the surface of tonight's leg of this stand-up tour - which sees host Michael introduce headliner Jason Manford off 8 Out of 10 Cats at the Manchester Apollo - and you'll find a brilliant pair of comedians rarely seen on TV. Indeed, the routines from John Bishop and Mick Ferry should get you giggling...

New series of the topical quiz show - that's so hot C4 would only send us a preview disc to get here on Monday. Presumably because it is so topical it is filmed after it's shown. It's funnier than it has any real right to be, because of Jimmy Carr's well crafted one-liners, Jason Manford's likeable nature and Sean Lock's occasional bursts of genius. The guests tonight are the posh 12-year-old comic Jack Whitehall, who did a nice line in flirting with Ken Livingstone last time he was on and Johnny Vegas, who we saw trawling around a north London bookshop last week looking rather svelte.