Ken Loach

Cardinal Burns Presents Dean and Murf is a spinoff from their Channel 4 comedy series. Dean and Murf are two superannuated ravers who live on a houseboat on the Regent's Canal and are trying to keep their heads above water without doing anything much like work. The show's targets include Loaded magazine and a splendidly sinister Ken Loach. If this turned up late at night on Radio 4 you wouldn't be surprised. To have the world of Withnail And I colliding with the comfy world of Radio 2 is more surprising.

Dave Johns wins major best actor award

Geordie comedian Dave Johns has won a major award for his role in the Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake.

David Johns interview

Comedian David Johns is used to a hard-to-impress Glasgow crowd - but playing the lead in the new Ken Loach film was a whole new challenge.

On the Buses: just like a Ken Loach film

It's set in a London of rusting Hillman Minxes and bare lightbulbs, but On the Buses was a huge hit in its time, and the fanclub is still going strong.

Ken Loach plays a blinder with this affable study of a depressed postman (Steve Evets) who sorts his life out with the help of his imaginary mentor Eric Cantona. It's not Loach's most political work but it's definitely his funniest film to date. Evets and his postie pals keep the daft laughs coming.

Getting On just keeps getting better. Well into the second series, and the geriatric ward comedy continues to combine Ken Loach style social realism with laugh out loud funny, without compromising either.

There are times when Getting On is so poignant and melancholy that it seems wrong to laugh, but I always do anyway. It is by far the best comedy on TV at the moment, and frequently the best drama as well. And to think I used to believe Jo Brand couldn't act.

If I hadn't known that new Saturday night sitcom The Old Guys was from Peep Show pair Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, would I have given it the time of day? Probably not. At first glance this was just another variant on the Odd Couple theme: mismatched housemates bitch and bicker, the twist being that this pair had one foot in the grave.

And there was certainly a touch of the Meldrews about Tom and Roy as they railed against a future that promised prostrates the size of Spacehoppers and joked about who'd get Alzheimer's first. But there was a touching hint of vulnerability amid the black comedy and a script that refreshing refused to dumb down for a mainstream Saturday night audience. "I don't want my daughter to take me to the toilet - it's not a Ken Loach film!" declared Tom, flying deliriously over the heads of his viewers.