Ralf Little

New mockumentary, narrated and exec-produced by Ralf Little, that follows a dysfunctional border control team at a minor UK airport as they cope with impassive foreign nationals, drug smugglers and bellicose Home Office directives. It's The Office with cavity searches, although judging by this bumpy first episode, it may take a while to find a groove. Edinburgh fringe veteran Jackie Clune is reliably good as harried team leader Linda Proctor.

C5's original comedy Borderline has great promise

For the first time in nine years, Channel 5 has created its own comedy series, Borderline. Set in the fictional Northend airport, the mockumentary follows a group of inept border guards trying to enforce Home Office policy. It is truly a comedy for post-Brexit Britain, and it has promise.

The gently eccentric seaside comedy returns for another stroll along the prom at Weston-super-Mare, stopping off for rock cakes and merry banter at the social hub that is Carol's café. Morris dancers, living statues and musician Richard's slow-burning pash for reluctant small-town girl Sarah (Ralf Little and Michelle Terry as the reticent lovebirds) are on the saucy postcards, the plot stirred up by the arrival of Robert Glenister (Hustle) and Mackenzie Crook (The Office) as surprising new characters.

Ralf Little and Michelle Terry return for a second series of their self-penned sitcom set in Weston-Super-Mare. Sarah (Terry) is back behind the café counter along with mother Carol (Ellie Haddington) and grandmother Sarah (June Watson). Most of today's customers bring consternation, not least Richard (Little), who has an announcement to make, and new character Phil (Robert Glenister), Carol's estranged husband.

It's all very staged but the script is reasonably amusing, with asides, misunderstandings and repetition to order. References to Twitter and Facebook nestle reasonably comfortably alongside the portrait of a crumbling seaside town, with the aghast Sarah the pivot between the two. Her frustrations will undoubtedly form the backbone of the series, and viewers will want to see her luck change - though how many episodes that will take remains to be seen.

Its premiere may be called 'Diminishing Returns', but we can assure you that The Cafe is as chucklesome as ever when it returns to Sky1 for its second series this week.

The Ralf Little comedy picks up with Carol's (Ellie Haddington) ex and Sarah's (Michelle Terry) estranged father Phil, played by Hustle star Robert Glenister, stopping by to say 'alroight' when he arrives in Weston-Super-Mare to shoot a tourism brochure. Elsewhere, Richard (Little) and Ava (Carolin Stoltz) make an unexpected announcement and Mary (June Watson) discovers Twitter. Knock together a nice bacon butty for yourself, pull up a pew and enjoy.

Simon Day and Ralf Little join The Ladykillers cast

Graham Linehan's The Ladykillers is heading back to the West End over the summer with a new cast which includes Simon Day, Ralf Little, Angela Thorne and Chris McCalphy.

More small things just barely happen in episode three of Ralf Little and Michelle Terry's watery comedy. The seaside caff has a fancy new menu nobody can understand ("Lapsang souchong! Lapsang souchong!"), and there's confusion over which of the love-struck young adults will attend a pub quiz.

In between are hints that the characters would be adorable if we only knew them. The Café wants to be warm and deft, a bit like The Royle Family or Gavin & Stacey, but it's a superficial copy. Craig Cash's lyrical direction tries to add depth and ends up pvercompensating - he's got a crane and by heck he's going to use it.

Like last week's first double bill, tonight's third episode of The Café also passes entirely without incident.

I think this is deliberate - a cunning way to deter grockles by making the British seaside appear so dull that townies will stay at home. But I'm not sure how it's meant to count as comedy.

Writers Ralf Little and Michelle Terry seems to rely on repeating the same phrases over and over again, perhaps in the hope that eventually you might laugh by mistake.

Last week we were beaten into submission by a weak joke about scones. Tonight's key words are "lapsang souchong" and "talk of the devil" which is what owner Carol says every time a customer comes in, even though she wasn't. Talking about them, that is. The humour, alas, is even weaker than the tea.