John Morton

How many new ways are there to satirise the suppressed longings and ritualised comforts of suburban or provincial lives? It's a perennially popular target of television comedy but the profile of a vicar which opened John Morton's People Like Us gained ample fresh mileage from well trodden territory.

Kiss Me Kate (BBC1) is a perfectly pleasant sitcom with a strikingly funny performance by the co-writer, Christopher Langham. It's not that he writes all the best lines for himself but more that his delivery is as flat as the line on a heart monitor when someone in a soap has snuffed it.