Michael Hogan

Well, we said it was light entertainment silly season. First in a double bill of new gameshows is this, hosted by Bradley Walsh. The "Home Team" of professional nice guy Peter Andre and likeable One Show recruit Jason Manford, plus an "Away Team" of two guest celebrities (first up are Coronation Street's Katherine Kelly and daytime dandy Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen), try to pick the person with a skill or secret out of a line-up by asking probing questions.

The terrestrial debut for this Bafta-winning and imaginative comedy-drama first shown on E4. Five inner-city delinquents doing community service get struck by lightning and gain strange superpowers. Its premise of teenage outsiders thrown together as punishment recalls cult high school film The Breakfast Club. The reluctant superhero plot echoes US drama Heroes, while its hormonal, hard-partying cast draws inevitable comparisons to E4 stablemate Skins. Yet Misfits is very much its own beast, combining horror shocks and sci-fi special effects with sharp humour. Provided you're not put off by its occasionally self-conscious "yoof" sheen, it's really rather superb.

The smart adult puppet show gets even more post-modern when Beeb stablemate Springwatch starts filming on the Isle of Dogs and urban fox Nelson is shocked to discover that all the animals are, in fact, actors. There are even knowing cameos from Terry Nutkins and Chris Packham. Meanwhile, "It-bitch" Destiny tries guide-dogging and Kali the pigeon admits that she used to nest in Amy Winehouse's hair.

A welcome return for the Bafta-winning sitcom set in a corporation's dingy computer department. This is the start of series four. Many would have wielded the axe after a patchy debut run. The show's stay of execution was largely down to affection for writer/director Graham Linehan - the man behind Father Ted and Black Books, Chris Morris collaborator and recipient of comedy's Ronnie Barker Award last year. His creation is now worthy of those credentials, going from strength to strength. Tonight's opening episode is entitled Jen the Fredo, after the weak Corleone brother in The Godfather, and is crammed with knowing nods to the revered Mafia movie. Desperate to escape IT, Jen (Katherine Parkinson) is made Entertainments Manager by unreconstructed boss Douglas (Matt Berry) - a man given to pronouncements such as, "I like my women how I like my toast. Hot and consumable with butter." Jen's new job means showing braying businessmen a good time - and a theatre trip to The Vagina Monologues isn't quite the ticket. Back in the bunker, geeky Moss (Richard Ayoade) is devising Dungeons & Dragons-style role-play games and heartbroken Roy (Chris O'Dowd) keeps weepily guzzling white wine at his desk. All these plot strands come together ingeniously. Most laughs come from Berry and Ayoade's more cartoonish characters, but Linehan isn't too proud to write in the odd pratfall and it's so well-acted, one scene is genuinely touching, despite its silliness.

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With much of the original cast and crew departed, this scally saga is said by some to have passed its sell-by date. That might be so, yet even on series seven, it remains one of the most energetic, outrageously ribald dramas around. Tonight Mimi (Tina Malone) bags herself a toy boy who isn't all he seems.