Julia Raeside

Have You Been Watching... Not Going Out?

Lee Mack's sitcom is a crowd-pleaser with integrity - and this series is even more joyously silly than the previous three.

A repeat of Wood's most glorious festive special from Christmas Day 2000. Because that's where she belongs, on Christmas Day. This wondrous show includes a timely finale featuring a singing/dancing Ann Widdecombe. How things change. Many standout moments, but the ER spoof set in a WI meeting, Julie Walters repeatedly falling into a grandfather clock in A Christmas Carol and a heavenly Brief Encounter spoof are stand-outs. Plus the "backstage" antics of some hapless BBC executives prove all too prescient. Worship Wood.

Vic and Bob are as winning, and deranged, as they've always been, their unique humour a mixture of the obscure (references to Dutch prog-rock group Focus; a suicidal mouse) and the general ("Ulrika Jonsson: 50 Christmases spent in bed!"). Guests include Ronnie Wood, Ricky Tomlinson and Thandie Newton, a trio of festively good sports among the madness. "So Ron," says Vic, "what's the latest you've stayed up?"

"Fly on the wall" possibly isn't the most hygienic way to describe a hospital comedy, but this second series for Jo Brand's ward-based series has been all about the slightly grubby details. Successful as a nurse? Then you're likely to be a failure as a human being. Good with people? You'll never prosper. It's a potentially pretty bleak prospect, it's true, but, directed with lightness by Peter Capaldi, the show creates a real empathy for and between its characters. Tonight, Dr Pippa receives some disappointing news and Beattie's stay in London comes to an end.

It's not a widely held sentiment but, occasionally, you could feel slightly sorry for Frankie Boyle, someone who's now more famous for being controversial than for actually being funny. Still, anyone who describes Jonathan Ross as "a £500 haircut on top of a pile of melting ice cream" can't be entirely bad, a fact you hope is borne out by this mix of sketches and live material.

Morgana Robinsons deranged creations in The Morgana Show should delight anyone with a thirst for League Of Gentlemen-style weirdness.

Hallelujah for Rev

Thank the Lord, the BBC looks set to give the go-ahead for a second series of the superb ecclesiastical comedy.

David Walliams narrates a history of disability on TV. It's a slightly directionless tour around the archives from the Spastics Society appeal of the 1960s via Joey Deacon's appearance on Blue Peter to Roy's hysterical abuse of a disabled toilet in The IT Crowd. There are even segments on Heather Mills and Big Brother, although the one about Mills mercifully shows no actual footage of her. Interviewees trying not to say the wrong thing include Mat Fraser, Stephen Merchant, Dom Joly, Ash Atalla and Francesca Martinez.

Ruth Jones as Hattie: are you enjoying biographical TV?

The Gavin & Stacey star is to play comic actress Hattie Jacques in the latest biopic for BBC4.

All I want for Christmas is Victoria Wood

The thought of Victoria Wood's return to the BBC Christmas schedules is enough to get me excited at the height of summer.