Peter Serafinowicz

Continuing their trend of rotating hosts, the music panel show is back for a staggering 25th series with cheesy David Hasselhoff taking the chair. Regular team captains Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding return. This week's guests include Amelle Berrabah, from troubled pop trio Sugababes, cutting comedian and actor Peter Serafinowicz, and impish reality star Louie Spence, whose manic campery should guarantee maximum mayhem.

Words can't adequately describe this gloriously eccentric new British sitcom - you'll just have to see it for yourself.

But imagine Monty Python, The League of Gentlemen, George Orwell's 1984 and An Island Parish in a blender - along with some spectacularly cheap scenery - and you'll start to get an idea.

It's written by and stars the previously unknown pair of Chris Bran and Justin Chubb (where have they been all our lives?), and is set on the tiny fictional island of Jinsy.

The island is dotted with devices called tesselators that look like those money-in-the slot viewing machines you find on the end of the pier.

These act as two-way CCTV, where folk can see what's going on and also be spied on by the island's fussy arbiter Maven and his assistant Sporall.

The constant flow of surreal ideas and sight gags lends this a sketch-show quality in parts.

There are hilarious folk songs, photo-copying owls and Harry Hill in drag as Joon Boolay presenting the island's weekly Punishment Round-up.

But in the first episode of tonight's double bill, the big draw sees guest star David Tennant playing local celebrity Mr Slightlyman - the master of the balls in the regular wedding lottery.

Peter Serafinowicz is just as fabulous as an evangelical cupboard salesman in the second episode.

A pilot for This Is Jinsy was screened on BBC Three in March last year, but they foolishly failed to pick it up for a full series and it's now on Sky Atlantic.

The show is directed by Matt Lipsey of Psychoville and Little Britain fame.

Well, I hope BBC Three is kicking itself right now because this has got cult classic written all over it.

Imagine Terry Gilliam and the Zucker brothers co-directing a remake of The Wicker Man starring Stanley Unwin and Flight of the Conchords. You're now about a seventh of the way to appreciating the silly, knobbly magic of This Is Jinsy. It's a secret club you must join.

Set on the musty, muddy-brown island of Jinsy, it stars its previously unknown writers Justin Chubb and Chris Bran as Maven, the community's fussing "arbiter", and his sensible sidekick Sporall. They're a classic sitcom duo but little else is familiar in this bumper hamper of visual gags, twisted characters and fantastic parodies of 1960s folk-pop.

The opening double bill features David Tennant as a flamboyant game show host, and Peter Serafinowicz as a cupboard salesman.

And yet more standups in It Is Rocket Science, a pithy, sweet programme about space presented by comedian Helen Keen, adapted from her 2008 Edinburgh show. This is an example of the recent trend among the geekier of standups to show the world that, you know, learning stuff is cool, as long as we keep shovelling in the gags. And it does its job well, with a joke-stuffed script, plus the extremely funny Peter Serafinowicz, providing the Voice Of Space. The Voice insists on referring to "The Ooooniverse". I laughed!

A determined attempt to make science jolly by Helen Keen, with Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane doing the funny voices. Keen focuses first on three rocket science pioneers, one Russian, one American and one Transylvanian-German, all of whom lived in the 19th century and each ridiculed by their contemporaries. Give it a try. It sounds a bit like one of those hugely popular Late Nights at the Science Museum but it's only 15 minutes out of your life and at least it proves that rocket science is of more use than in a stupidly dismissive cliché.

"Onwards to Mars!" was a catchphrase for 1920s' rocket club members and Helen Keen demonstrates a similar enthusiasm in this entertaining four-part series, romping through the often surprising history of rocket science. Featuring deadpan Peter Serafinowicz as "The Voice of Space", this week's show describes space pioneers Robert H Goddard, Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth.

Helen Keen pays tribute to the founding fathers of rocket science in this clever, offbeat comedy series, based on her successful Edinburgh Fring show. She guides us through the universe - 'that infinity of violent cold, seemingly without creation or culture, that great astral Aberdeen' - with help from Peter Serafinowicz, who is tremendously good value as The Voice of Space.

Irreverent comedy and aerospace engineering don't seem an obvious fit, but It Is Rocket Science, performed by Peter Serafinowicz, Helen Keen and Susy Kane, proves that fact-based boffin buffoonery works. The trio present an accurate account of the history of rocket science, starting in late-19th century Russia with Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky's dreams of space stations.

Serafinowicz for 'Arrested Development' role

Peter Serafinowicz has revealed that he will have a role in the upcoming Arrested Development film.

Full marks to whoever booked the panellists on tonight's Would I Lie To You?. It's a solid gold line-up this week. Joining David Mitchell, Lee Mack and Rob Brydon are Ruth Jones, Jason Manford, Jack Dee and Peter Serafinowicz - taking a break from what is practically a full-time job of filling the Twitter-verse with surreal one-liners.

This week they're all bringing their best poker faces to some very tall tales involving Ray Charles, a tortoise, a human sausage, a cheese and onion sandwich, Lee Mack's life expectancy, and David Mitchell's battery-buying habits.

And Rob Brydon's getting in on the act as well with his own true or false questions - did he really once steal Catherine Zeta-Jones' lunch money?