Katy Wix

Sir Terry Wogan joins the panel this week for the comedy game show in which celebrities tell supposedly true tales for the consideration of a rival team. Wogan claims that he begins Christmas Day by firing a loaded pistol. Plus, comedian Kevin Bridges has to explain what happened when he found a suitcase of bananas. Team captain Lee Mack is also joined by his Not Going Out co-star Katy Wix, and David Mitchell welcomes his comedy partner Robert Webb].

The second in the series of Comedy Showcase pilots, Coma Girl isn't the strongest of shows - and I can't see it getting a full series.

The girl in question, Lucy (Anna Crilly, who starred in last week's Comedy Lab pilot Anna & Katy), is trapped in a coma full of surreal moments - like seemingly being at a party and a pier, which made very little sense.

The main goings on was with the people who were coming to see her, especially three school friends: Siobhan (Sarah Solemani), a TV presenter who has recently got fired from her job, Pip (Katherine Parkinson), a bohemian woman, and Sarah (Katy Wix from Anna & Katy), a mother of three. There is also Lucy's mother Mrs. Kay (Julia Deakin) who is constantly taking photos in the hope of building up evidence so she can sue someone on her daughter's behalf.

For me the show was slow going. There was the odd good moment (Pip giving the comatose Lucy a copy of last week's Heat magazine to read), but I think the problem is that this show would probably work better as a comedy drama rather than a sitcom. The idea of a comedy about someone in a coma isn't a new idea (see the radio sitcom Vent) so it can work, but it wasn't presented too well in this format.

There's another issue I have with the show...the theme tune. If you have a show about a woman in a coma, surely "Girlfriend in a Coma" by The Smiths would be the ideal tune to play?

Unlike last week's Chickens, there wouldn't seem to be a whole lot of mileage in tonight's Comedy Showcase pilot.

Coma Girl is, not surprisingly, about a girl in a coma who - just like Stella in this week's Corrie - has also been hit by a car and now lies in a hospital bed.

While she's under she's visited by three old school friends as well as her mum.

From her mother's get-up, she might also turn out to be a time traveller from the 1950s, but the more likely explanation is that hair and wardrobe were just having a bit of an off day.

The friends are very well played by Katy Wix, Sarah Solemani, and Katherine Parkinson, while Anna Crilly - best known as the fabulous Magda in Lead Balloon - has the rather thankless task of playing the unfortunate patient Lucy, who's trapped in an Ashes To Ashes-style dream world.

It's pleasant enough but unless Coma Girl wakes up, or develops a much more interesting dream-life, it might be kinder to take this one off life support.

The first Comedy Lab pilot is this sketch show starring Anna Crilly and Katy Wix, which also featured guest appearances from Lee Mack and Eamonn Holmes. While I wanted to avoid using the cliché of sketch shows being 'hit and miss', I though that this show was... well, you can guess.

One problem I have with this show is that the ideas appear to be limited. They had a bunch of sketches in the first half, and the characters and situations were just repeated in the second half. I certainly don't mind recurring characters in sketch shows over the course of a series, but, to me, repeating them in the same episode is rather lazy.

Sketches include a pair of women living in a flat owned by a goat, a German hospital soap opera with lots of fake slapping, and day time show Congratulation! in which the two women give a 'Congratulation' to people over the trivial things, and give the biggest congratulation by displaying their censored vaginas.

However, there were bits I liked. One of the characters was a nervous woman giving out awards at a village fete. While she, on the whole, was one of the weaker characters, the preposterous sight of a cake in the shape of a swastika did make laugh. Also there was Holmes's game show Pointer, a Weakest Link parody in which people hold out very stiff arms and point out who they want eliminating. Then there were the women who were obsessed with measuring anything, including the distance their uncle had to be from a primary school.

This show does have potential. All they need to do is sort out the wheat from the chaff and utilise the best sketches to their advantage.

The Comedy Lab has been the springboard for shows like Modern Toss, as well as showing original material by everyone from Ricky Gervais to Peter Kay. Tonight, Anna & Katy (Anna Crilly and Katy Wix) present a one-off sketch show, ploughing such wilfully peculiar furrows as a German hospital soap opera, featuring a cameo from primetime comedy type Lee Mack; a deeply awkward village prize-giving event; and a pair of Liverpudlian teenagers obsessed with measuring things. Like most oddball comedy, that all sounds rubbish on paper, but it's actually been very nicely observed and deftly executed.

When Horrible Histories beat the truly excellent third series of The Armstrong and Miller Show to the Best Sketch Show gong at the Comedy Awards last year, I was a bit miffed. Surely people were just being nice because it happened to be a bit better than your average kids' show? Nope. Turns out it's just really, really good.

This, actually, is Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry, a best-of collection with a plumb slot on BBC 1, 6pm on Sundays. All the cool cats have been watching it for years of course, but for johnny-come-latelies (that's the correct pluralisation, I believe) such as myself, this is a nice little catch-up.

The show has several things going for it, starting with the sublime source material. Author Terry Deary had the fine idea of getting kids into history by giving the facts a human face and a joke or two and - most importantly - not talking down to his readership. The producers of the CBBC show have perfectly transferred Deary's ethos to television, and added some genuinely excellent comic actors, including Simon Farnaby and Katy Wix. It's pretty wonderful.

This week, I was particularly tickled by a sketch in which the entire English Civil War was summed up at a frantic pace by a newsreader in front of a map of the UK - all very Peter Snow on election night, with ridiculous graphics and snarky asides. Plus, who doesn't want to learn about the Vikings through the medium of soft rock? Funny, silly and (whisper it) very informative.

As team captain on Would I Lie To You?, as well his mega stand-up career and numerous other TV appearances, Lee Mack must have a bottomless well of gags in his back yard - and those jokes just keep on coming.

Now with a Rose D'Or and a Royal Television Award under its scruffy belt, his happy-go-lucky sitcom returns for series four and a six-week run.

In tonight's episode the scruffy belt in question belongs to an oversized trench coat that Lee's best mate Tim (Tim Vine) has mistakenly picked up from a ­nightclub cloakroom.

"You look like two dwarves with one cinema ticket," Lee tells Tim. ­Unfortunately, the coat isn't his, and neither is the large plastic bag full of cocaine that Tim finds stashed in the pocket.

How to return the drugs to their rightful owner before he comes looking for them is another unlikely problem for the hapless pair - as well as for Tim's ditzy girfriend Daisy (Katy Wix).

It's also the set-up for more of the kind of class A one-liners that make this half hour absolutely whizz past each week.

An hour-long cobbled-together translation of a series of mockumentary webisodes that they posted online this summer, From Boom to Bust tells of the What Not to Wear duo's attempts to regain the limelight. The first 20 minutes are not bad, with Katy Wix giving good support, but the programme soon descends into sweary nonsense. "We used to be huge. We used to be something," opines Trinny in a Marlon Brando moment. Yet the biggest thing about her are those suspiciously plump lips. If the pair were really intent on deriding themselves for laughs, how could they have missed that trick?

Spoof doc with the now washed-up telly fashion mavens, following them as they try to resuscitate their flagging career. Talking heads with Lulu, Jake Shears and Dr Fox add authenticity. Ditched by their agent ("When I first met them, they were Susannah and Trinny . . .") and out of TV offers, the pair start to peck at each other like irritable vultures. Their acting talent is genuinely surprising and they have superb support from Katy Wix as long-suffering assistant Gemma and Nicholas Burns as ex-agent Leonard. In terms of personality, this is how to look good figuratively naked.

Putting the boob-grabbing former queens of TV on Curb-style mockumentary seems as godawful an idea as Monkey Tennis or Robson Green's Extreme Fishing (which actually happened).

Yet this bizarre, sometimes hilarious show works unexpectedly well, with the pair squabbling and squawking, bemoaning Gok Wan's popularity and plumbing the depths of celebrity endorsement.

Once the high priestesses of makeover TV and initially watchable despite their 'tell-it-like-it-is' rudeness, we find Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine attempting to recapture former glories in From Boom to Bust (see what they did there with the title?)

In Thursday's opener, the fashionistas gunned for a return to the limelight in the shape of a Cillit Bang ad only for their decline on the celebrity stock market to torpedo the deal and lose the duo their longstanding agent.

Rent-a-celebs such as Lulu and Dr Fox popped up as talking heads and familiar comedians including Katy Wix (Not Going Out) and Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley) portrayed Trinny and Susannah's long-suffering staff.

At an hour, it was a little too long to sustain the joke but with teetotal Trin and Chardonnay-quaffing Suze impressively game for self-parody, it might be the vehicle they need to knock Gok off the makeover perch.