Phil Daoust

Your next box set: The League of Gentlemen

Psychopaths, plagues and Pauline the restart officer - once visited, The League of Gentlemen's Royston Vasey is never forgotten.

Stephen Mangan and Alistair McGowan, meanwhile, are away with the fairies. ElvenQuest (6.30pm, Radio 4), a six-part comedy from Richard Pinto and Anil Gupta, sees a fantasy novelist whisked off to a parallel universe where he must battle some evil lord or other for possession of the traditional enchanted pigsticker. "For whoso'er wields the sword shall rule all of Lower Earth", etc.

Pick of the day: I have never been to a football match or read a Jeffrey Archer novel. My daughter hasn't been clubbing or eaten a steak and kidney pie. If only we were famous - then we could make a few quid appearing on Marcus Brigstocke's new series, in which celebrities try 'quite ordinary things' for the very first time. In the meantime you'll have to make do with Phill Jupitus encountering his first Findus Crispy Pancake and delivering the less than ringing endorsement: Red Leicester? My fat arse! You can also find out what he makes of colonic irrigation in I've Never Seen Star Wars.

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Elsewhere, Knocker (11.15pm, BBC7) is having a few laughs at the expense of market researchers. Ian Dunn (Neil Edmond) is the International Query Board UK's longest-serving door-to-door interviewer, spreading a little irritation everywhere he goes with his broken clipboard and inappropriate footwear. Some people, it seems, would rather hide in their bins than answer questions about flannels ...

Did they have estate agents in the Middle Ages? Central heating, junk mail and double-glazing? They did according to The Castle, a six-part comedy from Kim Fuller.

Deep in ye olde countryside, 18-year-old Lady Anne Woodstock is looking for a husband. Or rather, her father is trying to find her a husband, while Anne drools over a strapping young commoner. More suitable suitors come and go - but none looks like he's in with a chance till Sir William De Warrene arrives back from the Crusades. Can Anne turn down a man voted one of the most eligible bachelors in the kingdom by Esquire magazine?

Kicking the Habit is a new comedy set in a Kent priory. Expect wry smiles more than belly laughs as the friars have their faith tested by the likes of modern technology, ice cream and the London marathon. (Think of it as Last of the Communion Wine, perhaps)

The BBC describes Edge Falls - written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst, and starring Mark Benton and Sarah Lancashire - as a five-part comedy. But the line between that and tragedy has rarely seemed so thin.

What do you look for in a workmate? A talent for footie? A nice little bum? Or access to a never-ending supply of biscuits? Fortunately for Rod Millet, he's got all three, which makes him a shoo-in for the post of assistant curator at a bijou gallery known as The Maltby Collection. Unfortunately for Rod Millet, on the very day that he starts work, the powers-that-be decide the museum must close.

Rod's colleagues immediately set about finding themselves comfy billets elsewhere - but the new boy decides to fight for the institution's survival ...

David Nobbs's sitcom stars Julian Rhind-Tutt as the biscuity idealist, Rachel Atkins as his smouldering boss, and Geoffrey Palmer as the self-centred museum director.

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Thanks to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, anyone who wants to demonstrate near the Houses of Parliament must first get permission from the police. There don't need to be a thousand of you chanting and waving placards, either: the law has been used against the pacifist Brian Haw, while the comedian Mark Thomas says a friend was once threatened with arrest for trying to eat a cake on to which the word Peace had been iced.

I have no idea what Giles Wemmbley Hogg Geht Zum Fussballweltmeisterschaft Weg! means, or even whether it's spelled correctly. If it's an obscenity, blame the BBC. But it probably has something to do with football (boo!) and definitely marks the return of Giles Wemmbley Hogg (hooray!), the globetrotting ignoramus played by Marcus Brigstocke. This three-part series, written by Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby, sees him caught up in the "excitement" of the World Cup, after booking a strolling holiday in the Schwarzwald in the foolish belief that "it'll be nice and quiet this time of year". He's never even played football before, although he was sports monitor at his public school - or, as he puts it: "I was the only one allowed to touch the master's ball bag."

During the competition, Giles finds himself caught up in a series of baffling adventures involving the Iranian squad, a stolen World Cup trophy, a very big cake and 50 sticks of Leipzig rock. To make matters worse, his fiancee, Bella, is coming out to meet him in Nuremberg to plan their wedding... with her mother.