Michael Hogan

Sue Perkins has become one of the faces of BBC Two in recent years, presenting all maner of food and pop-historical programming. Now she returns to her comic roots in this self-written sitcom, starring as Sara, a successful female vet about to turn 40 - but still frightened to tell her parents (Jeff Rawle and Harriet Walter) that she's gay. Her motley gang of friends set an ultimatum: if Sara fails to reveal her sexuality within six weeks, they will. To make matters even more chaotic, they arrange for her to attend a series of sessions with an eccentric life coach.

In her acting debut, Perkins is likeably beleaguered and sardonic, while there's a strong supporting cast of Nicola Walker (Spooks, Last Tango in Halifax), Dominic Coleman (Miranda), Shelley Conn (Mistresses) and Joanna Scanlan (The Thick of It, Getting On) - not to mention lots of four-legged extras. Guest stars also pop up throughout the six-part run, including June Brown, Steve Pemberton, Mark Heap, Dawn French and Perkins's Great British Bake Off co-host and original comedy partner Mel Giedroyc[/o]. Pitched somewhere between the slapstick Miranda and the sardonic Grandma's House, it's a highly promising, enjoyably daft opener.

The enjoyable series continues tonight with a friend encouraging Eileen (Sue Johnston) to join a group of local widows for emotional support. Meanwhile, Paula (Elizabeth Berrington) and Mandy (Julie Graham) set up rival classes in the latest keep-fit dance craze, Ay Carumba, and Ethan shows signs of being a future judo star.

The second of this trilogy of edgy dystopian dramas, White Bear is a horror-thriller starring Lenora Crichlow (Being Human) on extraordinary form as a girl who wakes up unable to remember her own name. A mysterious beamed signal has turned most of the population into dumb, apathetic voyeurs, while the unaffected have become murderous "hunters". Unsettling, satirical stuff.

In the third episode of Ricky Gervais's opinion-splitting, gentle comedy, Derek (Gervais) finds a baby bird which has fallen from a tree and tries to save its life. It's also date night for Tom (Brett Goldstein) and Hannah (standout performer, Kerry Godliman) - except she's forgotten about it. Expect a very tender denouement.

The penultimate slice of this patchy comedy-drama about a quartet of men in their mid-thirties who meet for a weekly booze-up in Stockport. Hodge (Lee Boardman) and his wife Kath (Rebekah Staton) head off for a romantic weekend away that turns out to be anything but. On-off girlfriend Colleen's frisky new ways throw neurotic Daz (Stephen Walters) into a crisis but divorcé Beggsy (Will Ash) fares rather better in the romance stakes as he finally begins to enjoy the spoils of single life. Keith Allen guest stars.

Last year's pilot episode got a mixed reception, so many were surprised when Ricky Gervais's comedy-drama about a retirement home worker with learning difficulties was commissioned for a full series. Yet here it is, starting a run of six episodes. Gervais writes, directs and stars as sweet-natured, animal-obsessed, autograph-hunting Derek Noakes. Gervais's regular sidekick and stooge Karl Pilkington reprises his role as caretaker Dougie, while Kerry Godliman is the standout performer as workaholic manageress Hannah. This opening episode finds Broadhill care home's future under threat from council cuts. Hannah takes inspectors on a guided tour but her efforts to impress are hampered by tadpoles in the bathroom and a naked guest in one of the beds, leaving the ragtag team struggling to prevent the home's closure. There are tender moments and its heart is in the right place, but the end product is misjudged. Much of the acting is awkward, while the script attempts to wring laughs out of bad wigs, sexual innuendo and gratuitous swearing. You can't help feeling it was Gervais's past reputation and celebrity status which got this made, rather than the quality of the show.

Their naughty nightly chat show during the Paralympic Games deservedly became a cult hit. Now likeable Australian stand-up Adam Hills and his two sidekicks, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker, present this weekly live review of the past seven days. Joining them on their opening show is actor Idris Elba.

Australian comic Adam Hills proved a hit during the 2012 Paralympics as host of Channel 4's nightly irreverent show The Last Leg - often using the fact that he was born without a right foot as a source of comedy. Here's a chance to watch him in a warm and witty stand-up set recorded live at London's Lyric Theatre. Hills blends hilarious anecdotes with laid-back delivery, spontaneous ad libs and audience participation.

The conclusion of writer Sally Wainwright's excellent, if increasingly bonkers, second-time-around comedy drama. Dismayed by the harsh reaction of Celia Dawson (Anne Reid) to the revelation that her daughter Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) is gay, Alan Buttershaw (Derek Jacobi) calls off the wedding, leaving a distraught Celia to face her demons. Has she lost her soulmate all over again?

The classy silvery romcom continues. The vicar refuses to let Celia (Anne Reid) and Alan (Derek Jacobi) marry in church - well, neither of them has attended church since 1977 - so the second-time-around lovers go in search of venues for a civil ceremony. Soon they end up trapped inside a creepy medieval mansion in a storm, telling each other ghost stories. Elsewhere Gillian (Nichola Walker) tells John (Tony Gardner) he needs to stick up for himself, prompting him to return to Harrogate and tell Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) that he's moving back in.