Mark Wright (I)

A paltry hour-long documentary hardly seems enough to cover the history of a television legend on its 40th anniversary, but it's nice to have, nevertheless. The surviving members of Monty Python's Flying Circus happily reminisce about their time in the comedy group in a series of brand new interviews. There's nothing that's completely different here, but sometimes it's good to go over old ground.

The return of one of the finest ever sitcoms in the history of the world ever - fact! Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong's darkly comical flat share work of genius starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb is on tip top form as ever. Considering it's on its sixth series, that's no mean feat. Brilliant, inspired stuff!

ITV must be cock-a-hoop to see one of their sure-fire ratings bankers return for a new series of eight episodes. Martin Clunes is back as irascible and blood-fearing GP Martin Ellingham, tending to the ills of the populace of Cornish fishing village Portwenn. At the end of the last series, fans were aghast when the wedding of Ellingham and his on-off love Louisa (the fabulous Caroline Katz) didn't go ahead. Louisa is still around, but our favourite GP bumping into an old flame from medical school isn't going to make things any easier. Good, honest fun.

A final slice of sugary-sweet shenanigans from perhaps the worst five-star hotel in creation - you'd probably have a better time at Fawlty Towers to be honest. There's something about this series that hasn't quite gelled, with the ongoing plot of whether Sam and Juliet will get back together not setting the world alight. Not to insult his many fans, but Nigel Harman just ain't Max Beesley, and if there's going to be a fifth series, a rethink is needed. It's still fun to an extent - but is that enough any more?

Thank God for Outnumbered, sitting there like a shining beacon in a fog of tedium on a Saturday night. And the fact it's a repeat makes it all the more amazing. Tonight sees Pete and Sue heading out for dinner, leaving the kids to run rings round the babysitter. It's brilliant, well-observed stuff, and doesn't get tired on repeat viewing.

The brilliant Jam and Jerusalem continues with an episode that has Caroline (Jennifer Saunders) throwing a dinner party at her enormous home - and finds the guests aren't quite the ones she would have liked. As ever, there's some beautifully observed comedy of social manners here, and always played with a big heart and sense of fun that's hard to resist. As lovely as a hot buttered crumpet!

Saints be praised! Sunday night television is saved by the return of Jennifer Saunders's fabulous comedy centring on the activities of the Clatterford Womens' Guild. It's brilliant, gentle stuff, but cut with a sense of anarchy that you'd expect from Saunders's writing. Sue Johnston, Dawn French and Pauline McLynn are all back, with great support from Rosie Cavaliero, David Mitchell and
Maggie Steed, amongst others. This first hour long episode of three has the villagers getting flustered over a planning application - then they find out it might be for Charles Dance...

Oddly we missed this new BBC3 comedy drama off our list last week, but we're getting with the programme for episode 2. It's all a bit odd, with a sometimes outrageous line in comedy in-between this glamourous group of PAs attempting to solve the disappearance of one of their number. The cast are pretty (and on the whole very good), but there's a sense that this wants to be Green Wing when it grows up, but just isn't in the same league. Worth a look, though.

It might have links to The League of Gentlemen, but Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, two of that august number, have managed to craft something in Psychoville that feels distinctive in its own right, despite some of the trappings of the former. While the original League had a rotten core at the centre of the dark comedy, there's a surprisingly tragic heart here, exemplified by Joy, Dawn French's doll obsessed midwife. It's hard not to feel sorry for this woman, but at the same time. She's absolutely terrifying, charged with the potential energy to go off and do something abhorrent. Chilling, brilliant and funny.

A complaint often levelled at television is that there are far too many repeats slotted into the schedules, which can be a highly valid gripe. But when the repeat in question is another go for Outnumbered series two (which gained decent ratings on its previous Saturday showing), we'll let it go. Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin's heavily improvised comedy is a constant delight as Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner play the average couple with three kids - and it's the kids that steal the show every time. In this first episode, Pete and Sue shepherd their brood to a family wedding - with predictably chaotic results. Highly recommended.