Matt Lucas

While his partner in catchphrase comedy David Walliams has been busy with headline-grabbing, charitable sporting heroics and judging Britain's Got Talent, Matt Lucas has been developing this panel show that's such an easy win of an idea, it's a wonder nobody's thought of it before. Based on Lucas's radio show And the Winner Is..., the format is a low-key awards ceremony for a diverse array of unsung topics - from "dullest pastime" to "least likely to have actually occurred Bible story".

Each week, three celebrity guests will suggest nominees for various suitably wacky categories and then fight it out with Lucas to prove their case. First up, comedy types Jason Manford, Henning Wehn and Graeme Garden debate subjects such as "dreadfullest football song ever sung" and "smuggest nation of people" (that one's between the Swedes, the Chinese and the English, they reckon). Covering topics we can all muster up an opinion on, it's essentially a more celebratory Room 101. A fun enough watch, if you can stomach the self-indulgent theme tune featuring a cartoon Lucas singing about being "that man from those other shows you like".

Audio: Matt Lucas goes solo in new show

Comedian Matt Lucas returns to BBC1 with his new show The Matt Lucas Awards.

Based on his BBC Radio 2 series And The Winner Is... he will give out the prizes that others do not, such as Smuggest Nation of People and Most More-ish Food.

Mr Lucas told BBC Radio 5 Live's Richard Bacon how the nominations are submitted by celebrities each week.

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David Baddiel's comedy about a Muslim man (played by charismatic comic Omid Djalili) who discovers he is Jewish and embarks on a quest that leads him into an unlikely friendship with a Jewish taxi driver (Richard Schiff). With cameos from the likes of Matt Lucas, Tracy-Anne Oberman and David Schneider, it's mildly amusing fare.

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There was a sharp intake of breath among fans when it emerged that Matt Lucas would not be reprising his role of score master George Dawes on Shooting Stars. But in shambled Angelos Epithemiou with his carrier bags, rave interludes, bottle-bottom glasses and misplaced arrogance. He was, perhaps, even better than Dawes, and easily as arbitrary. Here comedian Dan Skinner gets a whole half-hour of his own to show off Angelos in all his shabby glory.

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Curb Your Judaism saw David Schneider ponder why Britain's Jewish comics often avoid looking to their religious background for material, unlike their opposite numbers across the pond.

This was a hotchpotch of a documentary with different contributors - among them David Baddiel, Matt Lucas and writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran - all offering their thoughts on why Jewish humour has largely stayed in the closet. Could it be the effect of political correctness? The performer's fear of being pigeonholed and not making the mainstream? It wasn't clear whether the programme sufficiently answered any of these questions. Perhaps placing the debate in some kind of historical and/or social context would have helped as well as hearing the thoughts of the American performers mentioned.