Mark Wright (I)

The [o]BBC[o]'s celebrity dinner party gameshow returns for a second season, with this week's diners Jonathan Ross, Gabby Logan, Mark Wright, Anita Rani and Rachel Parris all surrendering their credit cards in the hope one of them will be footing the bill. A gentle hark back to the days of dining out.

Celebrity Mark Wright wanders into Successville this week to help DI Sleet crack another crime. As ever, poor old Mark has no idea what's happening and has no script to work from. The Towie star-turned-radio DJ just has to be game for a laugh and willing to play along with a relatively straight face.

Sleet and his new recruit get to know one another with some chat about their various approaches to lovemaking, with Sleet saying after he's "laid down some sex" he likes to issue feedback forms. He asks Wright to explain some adventurous positions, and the poor man can't help but break character and giggle. Then the "sexual warriors" go off to track down a drug dealer, with help from local grass Daniel Radcliffe. And when they try to interrogate a crook he sneers, in a wild Scottish accent: "Ah've had a mair thorough grilling than that aff a set of fairy lights!"

Mark Wright fears being mocked by Keith Lemon

'Boring' Mark Wright fears being mocked on The Keith Lemon Sketch Show will make him the 'new Craig David'.

Despite the usual likable performance from Michelle Ryan, this damp squib of a romantic comedy drama isn't really worth the time of day. It's based on a shaky premise, with Ryan's numbers obsessed brainiac holding out to marry her eleventh sexual partner as that's what the statistics say will be her optimum partner. Er, what? Amazing she got to her eleventh partner with a hang up like that, as most men would probably run away screaming. That being said, put this against Big Top and it looks like a Poliakoff epic.

I fear that the second series of this charming comedy has been overlooked somewhat, which is a shame as it's so good. This week there's a holiday in the offing for Simon's family, but as always, it never quite seems to work out. When guff like Big Top gets commissioned, we can be thankful there's still room on TV for quality fare like this.

A superb episode of Armando Iannucci's effortless political satire, as Nicola Murray and her opposition counterpart, Peter Mannion, appear on Richard Bacon's radio show. And the results are, as you'd expect, not pretty. But it's the encounter behind the scenes between Malcolm Tucker and Mannion's own wizard of spin, Stewart Pearson, where the real thrust of this episode lies. It's like the meeting of two powerful Jedi. Or something.

Why We Love Miranda

The simple answer is because it's good. Yes, every now and then it does happen and somebody comes up with a decent, honest to goodness, line and length studio-based sitcom. And with Miranda, writer and series lead Miranda Hart has done just that.

The boys keep up the high quality level that has been typical of this series, with hapless historian Dennis Lincoln-Park becoming a firm favourite. It might be the same gag week in, week out, but that's the absolute beauty of it. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face at the end of the week.

Tonight's instalment of officially the best comedy on television (according to me, so there) sees the return of Roger Allam's Tory MP Peter Mannion, last seen in the fantastic specials a couple of years ago. It's a testament to the writing team that Mannion is a likable if fairly impotent character - it would have been easy to portray the Tory as slavering, smug blaggards. It's as sharp as ever, with Mannion's team attempting to capitalise on problems in Nicola Murray's private life. And of course, in the thick of it, there's Malcolm. There's always Malcolm.