Rachel Ward

This sitcom, in which a budding journalist's personal life is continually analysed by a pair of omniscient sport commentators, is clearly aimed at the Men Behaving Badly audience with its reliance on cringe-inducing humour. There are some punchy moments in this final episode of the series, though. Feckless Pete Griffiths (Rafe Spall, star of Desperate Romantics and son of Timothy) finally gets a sports writing job, but it's reliant on pretending to be in a relationship with his friend Ollie's girlfriend, who works for the same magazine. It's fun, even if the format is forced.

"No other foodstuff is as uncompromising as a kipper," says flustered food technology teacher Val in the penultimate episode of this microscopically observed comedy. Its slow burning approach may not be to everyone's tastes, but this series about the banalities of married life has become something rather special. While not a lot physically happens (tonight Roger and Val sit on the bed, sipping tea, and stare at a computer screen), there's more going on beneath the surface. The couple (played to perfection by Dawn French and Alfred Molina) bicker about the mundane and gently bounce off one another's playful exchanges, but their lives are soaked with a strange sadness stemming from an event in their past, never mentioned until now.

In tonight's episode, Val comes home from work to find Roger hiding under the duvet in a darkened bedroom. Roger is on compassionate leave following the death of his father and has acted on the advice of his grief counsellor by writing a description of an idealised version of his life. But the nervy Roger has mistakenly emailed his heartfelt outpouring to the entire senior management team at the garden centre where he works. "Reply all - two words I'll never click again," says a hideously embarrassed Roger. "What about your job, Roger, your pension?" panics Val. As the couple try to salvage the situation, events take a more touching turn.

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Sick of living in squalor in Sixties Camden, down-on-their-luck actors Withnail (an impressively intense debut from Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann) decide to take an idyllic holiday in the Lake District. This superb British tragi-comedy, which has become a cult favourite, follows the two unemployables as they tackle extreme weather and Withnail's lecherous Uncle Monty (a typically imposing Richard Griffiths).

This sixth series of the sitcom about two hapless flatmates (played by David Mitchell and Robert Webb) continues to be consistently funny so it's good news for fans that a seventh has been commissioned. Tonight, Mark (Mitchell) finds out that Jeremy's (Webb) new Russian girlfriend Elena has a secret but can't bear to break his friend's happiness by spilling the beans. Meanwhile Johnson (Paterson Joseph) gives Mark more food for thought by asking him to go into business.

It's brash, bold and, despite its poor innuendos and obvious crudeness, at times quite brilliant in its sending-up of the working-class stereotype of the popular Spanish tourist destination. In tonight's second episode of the third series, Mick (Steve Pemberton) and Janice (Siobhan Finneran) are having relationship troubles and Brandy (Sheridan Smith) plays a practical joke on the bumbling Martin (Nicholas Burns).

It seems money is talking louder than common sense in this glossy hotel drama: in another bonkers storyline, owner Sam (Nigel Harman) strikes a deal with a magazine when the hotel is chosen as the venue for a royal wedding. But when the wedding is called off Sam continues with the party regardless, getting the hotel's staff to masquerade as wedding guests. It's all impish fun, but guest stars Kelly Osbourne and Darius Danesh are embarrassingly awkward.

"That's it, we're moving to Cornwall. I'll teach surfing, you can open a tin mine." As frustrated commuter Reggie Perrin (Martin Clunes) continues to be infuriated by the tedium of his life, his marriage to Nicola (Fay Ripley) is also feeling the strain in this slightly amusing sitcom remake.

Martin Freeman and Rachael Stirling keep up the momentum of this gender-swap comedy in the series's penultimate episode. It's easy enough to catch up with the plot: DIY store worker Danny (Freeman) and fashion writer Veronica (Stirling) have swapped bodies after a freak electrical storm. This week, Danny is carted off to a mental health unit after she announces at work that she is not Veronica, but a man named Danny.