Mark Watson

If you enjoy the bits in-between the programmes better than the shows ­themselves, then this one is for you.

Mark Dolan hosts a new panel game all about TV commercials featuring guest ­comedians alongside two less comfortable looking advertising industry people.

After some so-so rounds, it culminates in captains Micky ­Flanagan and Mark Watson producing (surprisingly ­rather entertaining) ads of their own for two new made-up products.

Mark Dolan presents this ambitious new comedy panel show about the world of advertising. The set-up is as follows: each week, the two team captains - comedians Micky Flanagan and Mark Watson - are joined by an advertising industry insider and a celebrity guest. The teams are then quizzed about adverts from past and present, as well as being challenged to film their own advert, with the studio audience voting for the best. This first edition focuses on public information films, with ITV's bubbly daytime host Lorraine Kelly and the award-winning stand-up Josh Widdicombe as guests. Sadly, no preview discs were available.

New comedy panel show based entirely around commercials. Old ones. New ones. Funneee foreign ones! No previews were available, but we're hazarding a guess that the glory days of 80s advertising will be thoroughly mined (the washing powder ad with the Daily Mail mum and her skinhead son - "Aowww, mum!"). The hilarity will be leavened by pairing Micky Flanagan and Mark Watson's teams with advertising industry insiders who, we're promised, will provide "genuine insight" into the satanic world of marketing.

Mark Watson: It's a Mad Bad Ad world

I felt the show was quite good while we were in the process of making it, but it's virtually impossible to tell until it's too late; that's one of the perils of TV. It's in a fairly high-profile slot (10pm on Friday), so if people don't take to it, the online criticism will be swift and brutal.

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Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation

Assisted by Tom Basden and Tim Key, Mark's back on Radio 4 to look once again at some of the qualities and character traits that make a person.

Mark Watson Addresses the Nation

Last Wednesday Mark Watson returned to the airwaves with his new show for Radio 4. So naturally we cornered Mark by the lifts and asked him to write a blog about it!

Mark Watson: After-match analysis

At last I've got five minutes to reflect on last night's antics... As you'll be able to verify if you were there, I squawked and flailed in my usual manner and kept yelping THIS IS LIVE!!!!! as my brain was continually registering that thought. I was slightly less madcap than in the pilot though, and I think overall this went equally well.

This is bold. It really is live and because of that, and the time of night, it's going to be expensive (all the behind the scenes people will be on overtime). And Mark Watson wants you to join in, too, discussing the big questions crucial to people's understanding of themselves and society, looking for big answers. There's a live studio audience who'll join in, plus Watson's two sidekicks Tim Key and Tom Basden, but your tweets and emails are requested. If it ends up sounding like that spoof, Down the Line, you've been warned.

I just recorded Never Mind The Buzzcocks. It's quite an odd experience these days, post-Amstell. He used to chat to the pop guests so much it felt like Parkinson. Nowadays they don't get much attention at all. And the rounds whizz by with markedly less banter because whoever's hosting tends to try and follow producers' instructions, which generally run along the lines of 'stop those people talking about anal sex' or whatever the riff du jour is.

Strangely, after 25 series, Buzzcocks is starting to resemble a pop quiz again.

Still - I was never much good at banter so it suits me quite well to sit there and finish off the odd song lyric. I wore a suit, if you like that kind of thing. The show was hosted by Will Young, who is charming. And it mostly centres around Paul Foot. Who is very funny. You can watch it on Halloween night, if you're not too busy dressing as a cat or Satan.