Michael Hogan

Inbetweeners stars Simon Bird and Joe Thomas, along with comedian Jonny Sweet, write and head the cast of this period sitcom pilot set during the First World War. For reasons including flat feet and conscientious objection, three young men are left back home while their peers fight on foreign soil. Can they overcome their cowardly reputation in their sleepy village and win favour with the local ladies? It's a neat set-up that comes across like The crossed with Dad's Army and dressed in three-piece tweed.

Just in time to replace My Family, the popular sitcom about the chaotic Brockman family returns for its fourth series. This opening episode sees a family funeral, so parents Pete and Sue (the suitably beleaguered Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner) must decide which of their unruly brood to take along. John Sessions pops up in an amusing cameo as the vicar. It might be lighter on laughs than a truly top-drawer sitcom, but it's charming stuff and you can see why it wins awards, mainly thanks to the children's semi-improvised performances.

It's lasted 11 long years, 120 episodes and withstood widespread sneering. Now the Harper family bid farewell with the last ever episode of the sitcom that viewers loved but critics loathed. Susan (Zoë Wanamaker) and Janey (Daniela Denby-Ashe) attend an eventful hen party, while disgruntled dentist Ben (Robert Lindsay) is babysitting at home - as ever, with supposedly hilarious consequences. It's time for the curtain to fall: the show's always been impeccably performed, but the writing deteriorated in recent years and ratings have fallen from a peak of 11m to around 4m.

On the same evening that ITV1 unleashes its ratings juggernaut The X Factor, the Beeb launches this new comedy game show aimed squarely at families. It's a talent show meets guessing game, hosted by the always charming Alexander Armstrong, with fast-rising stand-up Micky Flanagan as his foil. Eccentric members of the public demonstrate their unusual talents to a panel of comedians, headed by Flanagan, who put a secret cash value on the skill, based on originality, personality and performance. The contestant must then guess the total amount bid to win the cash or they leave with nothing. It's hardly ground-breaking, bearing a distinct resemblance to 1990s ITV show You Bet!, but is still frothy fun.

This week's theme for the Liverpudlian stand-up is hobbies, as he riffs on our childhood love of collecting and grown-up penchants for karaoke, shopping and DIY. He's joined by former cricketer Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff, who reveals how he hoarded soap as a boy.

Despite a slightly awkward format, this vehicle for the likeable Liverpudlian comic pulled in decent ratings of 4.2m when it debuted last year, hence this second series. It sees Bishop perform a stand-up set based on a theme, interweaving his own observations with input from celebrity guests and members of the public. Tonight he tackles music and fashion, telling tales of gig-going and style crimes. Eamonn Holmes and Freddie Flintoff confess their guilty musical pleasures, while MasterChef's Gregg "The Egg" Wallace shows why he belongs in the kitchen, not on the dancefloor.

First shown on BBC Three last autumn, this sitcom gets its first terrestrial airing. It's based in the bedsit of unemployed twentysomething couple Steve (Being Human's excellent Russell Tovey) and Becky (comedian Sarah Solemani) as the pair laze around in bed, drinking, eating, having sex and bickering. It's low-key, slightly grubby and observational in the vein of The Royle Family.

ITV's new look Saturday line-up continues to settle in, with the second episode of this raucous show which sees couples come into the studio to settle marital disputes. Each partner puts their side of the tiff across, while host Dermot O'Leary tries to keep the peace. A three-strong celebrity panel then offers their views and ultimately votes on the victor.

Lee Mack, the comic and star of the sitcom Not Going Out, gets his own vehicle. It's a glorified chat show with celebrity guests, stand-up, sketch and musical acts - starting tonight with James Blunt. The gimmick is that the studio audience and viewers at home are invited to take part too. Mack makes amusing company but it's rather Graham Norton lite, and, similarly to John Bishop's Britain, which went out in the same slot, feels like a comedian carrying a slightly awkward format.

Dermot O'Leary hosts this noisy new entertainment show, which sees real-life couples air their marital tiffs in front of a three-strong celebrity panel. It's a format devised by US comedian Jerry Seinfeld; the American version, which aired Stateside last year, featured such guests as Madonna and Tina Fey. ITV will be hoping its feisty arguments prove palatable to British audiences: they've ordered a seven-week series and booked guests including Jimmy Carr, Geri Halliwell and Jonathan Ross (him again).