Mel Giedroyc

Sue Perkins is right: losing friends to relationships hurts

It didn't surprise me when the presenter talked of the loss she felt when Mel Giedroyc got married. We don't talk enough about this side of friendship.

Stephen Fry & Mel Giedroyc to join Rocky Horror cast

The stars will join Richard O'Brien for a one-off special gala performance on 17 September.

Q&A: Mel Giedroyc, TV presenter

'My guiltiest pleasure? Fig rolls. While watching Downton. Nude'

Ed Byrne and Jo Brand for Great Comic Relief Bake Off

16 new celebrities will be feeling the heat of Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry this February, but at least they'll have four presenters in the Bake Off tent to sweeten the deal. Regular Great British Bake Off presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins will be joined by comedians Ed Byrne and Jo Brand.

Radio Times review

This show's teams are so quick and on-the-comedy-ball, some guests barely get a look in. In this edition, it's Adil Ray - of Citizen Khan - who takes a back seat as the likes of Bob Mortimer and Lee Mack steer the WILTY charabanc to unlikely places.

Mortimer is on great form, making out that as a teenager he was banished from Castle Douglas for frightening the locals. As he piles on implausible details (a friend called Steve Bytheway, latex masks, and so on) with a straight face, you can't help feeling he's taken his flight of fancy too far. Or is it the old trick of elaborating an anecdote to make it sound ridiculous?

Also peddling tall tales are Kian Egan from Westlife, who may or may not have bid for his own waxwork, and Mel Giedroyc with, suitably enough, a cake-based story. It involves David Bowie.

Mel and Sue to get daytime chat show

Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins will host their first chat show for 16 years.

ITV Daytime has commissioned a new show hosted by the pair, who have gained popularity recently thanks to their amusing on-screen patter on BBC One's Great British Bake Off.

The show, which is yet to be titled, will air daily and see Giedroyc and Perkins joined by British celebrities and members of the public.

It's a cameo-crammed episode of Sue Perkins's vet-based comedy tonight. She's joined by long-time collaborator Mel Giedroyc, on top form as a brusque Russian. Then Steve Pemberton pops up as a veterinary inspector with a penchant for horses. Despite feeling curiously detached from any sort of reality, Perkins's script is sprightly and her presence is somehow reassuring - awkward but always amiable.

This sketch show from Anna Crilly (Lead Balloon) and Katy Wix (Not Going Out) skewers TV shows and genres with affectionate/savage accuracy. So Great British Bake Off becomes Rice Britannia, with Crilly doing an accurate Mel Giedroyc, and a clever Apprentice skit is believable down to the ugly businesswear and nonsensical parts of speech. Mucky in places, silly in others and funny more often than not, Anna & Katy are great performers.

Comedian, Maestro winner, Celebrity Big Brother housemate, Great British Bake Off presenter and possible future Doctor Who, Sue Perkins has somehow managed to neglect writing and starring in her very own sitcom until now.

Here she plays Sara, a vet who's too afraid to tell her parents she's gay. But as her 40th birthday approaches, Sara's loyal band of friends, which includes Nicola Walker from Spooks, have a plan to give her the courage to tell her folks.

Perhaps they could show them the spread from Tatler magazine that hailed Sue as one of Britain's coolest lesbians.

Some exciting guests are lined up for the series including Dawn French and Sue's comedy partner Mel Giedroyc. Tonight the fabulous Mark Heap drops in.