John Robinson

Excellent clip/talking head profile of Les Dawson, progeny of the north-west club scene, and from his late 30s until his death, a mainstay of comedy and light entertainment on television. Proper stars like John Cleese and Robert Webb duly doff their caps, which is diverting enough, but the real fun is in the archive material, whether it be Les singing with Lulu, his magnificently satirical piano-playing, or his deadpan one-liners. Features many a reference to Dawson's equivalent of Moriarty, his mother-in-law.

Warwick is facing more blows to his self-esteem: he's cut out of a BBC current affairs interview, finds his Dwarves For Hire clients are mutinying, then discovers his website is under attack from a 16-year-old schoolboy, whom he attempts to confront, with devastating consequences. Warwick lands some work as a stand-in, but Helena Bonham Carter demands he be replaced in his scene by a bin with a face painted on it.

Final episode in the comedy-drama that managed to live up to sky-scraping expectations. It's the end of the first term and Vod is kicked off her course, Oregon tries to adjust to life as Shales's girlfriend and Kingsley's yearning for Josie reaches its shrill crescendo. Meanwhile, JP has his dad's funeral to attend, giving Jack Whitehall a stab at genuine pathos. It's only the end of term one and that means - one term per series - there could be a potential eight series with the same cast. Great!

Reality and satire get even closer in this latest offering from Gervais and Merchant. In this supposed documentary series, we follow actor Warwick Davis, "the UK's go-to dwarf". Davis plays himself as a cross between David Brent and Tony Blair, a man with a delusional sense of his own importance, who sees himself as a valued character player, and campaigner ("like Martin Luther King") but who sees others of his stature as slightly pitiable. Liam Neeson guests, expressing a wish to debut his spectacularly unfunny standup comedy.

A suburban tale evidently shooting for a Desperate Housewives-style comedy-drama angle, Mount Pleasant seems to have decided that comedy is what you create when you combine the cliche with the offensive. Even Sky's habit of throwing money at the problem can't make things right, as a fine cast of well-liked British actors (Angela Griffin, Sally Lindsay, Bobby Ball - the only good element here) try to lift the diabolical material. And the whole thing is made still worse by jarring shifts in tone.

You would not want to put it to her this way, but there is clearly something about Jane Horrocks that says "supermarket". A former star of a long-running Tesco ad, Horrocks stars here in a new sitcom about the employees of Valco supermarket. It's neither surreal nor pathos-filled, instead it forms another addition to producer Ash Atalla's stable of shows that take a slightly edgy look at the utterly commonplace. Mark Addy and cool newcomer Joel Fry are among the other quality comedy talents lurking in the aisles.

The ill-advised nature of mixing business with pleasure is the theme of tonight's White Van Man. The charming but flaky Darren attempts to pull off the feat of working with Olly (Will Mellor) on the house where he's just spent the night with the owner, Lucy - with neither Olly nor Lucy suspecting what he's doing. Emma, meanwhile, pitches one of Olly's business ideas to the errantly-haired Ian (Dexter Fletcher). It's Toast Office - a toast-themed restaurant with free champagne, "so you can toast your toast". It didn't start well, but this has been an endearingly surreal grower, mainly down to Joel Fry as Darren.

Beverly and Sean continue to bicker over the vile Americanisation of their show tonight as the "Pucks" pilot continues filming. They're called out on a late-night rescue mission when a sozzled Matt is stranded and surrounded by the paps. Tonight's episode is mostly a three-hander between its stars and, despite their more-than-adequate performances, a certain flatness pervades. This should be brilliant, particularly with Greig and Mangan involved, but the writing isn't quite smart enough to warrant moving this slowly.

New comedy improvisation show with a very talented cast. Hugh Dennis hosts and the performers include The Thick Of It's Justin Edwards, Perrier-winner Laura Solon, The Penny Dreadfuls' Humphrey Ker and Greg Davies from The Inbetweeners. It's a pacey mix of Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Dan Patterson created that and this) and Mock the Week but in a good way. It's new comedy, so try to give it at least two episodes before you whine endlessly on Twitter about how rubbish you think it is.

Paul Abbott's ribald comedy-drama about the Gallagher family has been a breeding ground for strong British acting - James McAvoy, Maxine Peake and Anne-Marie Duff have all inhabited its Chatsworth estate - and the series continues to bring the novelty. The first five episodes of this eighth series are stripped across five consecutive nights, so if you've dropped out of the habit of watching, and feel Frank's errant dynasty has become too complex to follow, here's an opportunity to catch up. And what better way to start than with the wedding of the year: Frank's. But, er, where is he, exactly?