Rebecca Nicholson

Last Tango in Halifax - TV review

After the pounding melodrama of Ripper Street and Peaky Blinders, a drama that lets its dialogue breathe is an absolute joy.

Bridget Christie: 'I've a long way to go'

The winner of this year's Edinburgh Comedy award is one of our sharpest and most political standups - but reckons she still has a lot to learn. She talks about success, her unorthodox campaign against lads' mags, and why all female comics know that online abuse is nothing new.

Rebecca Front's favourite TV

Comic actress Rebecca Front talks about some of her favourite TV shows, including It's Kevin and Playhouse Presents.

It's been 25 years since the first Red Nose Day brought amusing people together to do jokes and ask for your charitable donations, so there are some anniversary-worthy treats lined up for tonight. The Fresh Meat gang migrate over from Channel 4, while Miranda Hart is doing a UK-wide jaunt that sounds like a modern version of Challenge Anneka. Russell Brand is back at the Beeb for the late-night presenting shift, and Ricky Gervais will attempt to atone for the last three years of comedy duds with a new instalment of The Office.

The opening episode was relatively gentle, but make no mistake, Black Mirror is back on brutal, nasty form tonight. Being Human's Lenora Crichlow plays Victoria, who wakes up with a severe headache and no memory of who she is. When she staggers into the outside world, she meets an army of passive observers who film her on their phones while she's tracked by "hunters" in terrifying masks. Nothing is as it seems, but you've got to admire a TV show that seems so intent on putting you off looking at screens for good.

There's nothing so showy as the PM getting cosy with a pig in this, the first of three new standalone stories from Charlie Brooker; rather, it's a sad and pensive look at love and loss, with that necessary dystopian twist. Martha (Hayley Atwell) is grieving following her boyfriend's death, until a friend signs her up for a virtual service that creates a version of him based on his online footprint. It is as much about people shaping each other as it is a nightmarish vision of the future, but it is no less compelling for that.

Hunderby: why this Julia Davis comedy is worth watching

This period-sitcom homage to Daphne du Maurier is the most original show on television. If you didn't catch Hunderby first time round, don't miss the repeat.

As a black comedy-cum-period drama based on Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, it's reasonable to point out that Julia Davis' first full series since Nighty Night isn't quite like anything else on television. It's also markedly different to her previous work, with a tight, playfully literary script accentuating the bizarre bleakness. A shipwreck survivor marries the local pastor, and Davis' Mrs Danvers-esque Dorothy is most displeased ... Original, bold and brilliant.

Ash Atalla has executive-produced this gem of a mockumentary, which has been on iPlayer for a few weeks now, but deserves the bigger audience this slot should bring. MC Sniper is the "general" of pirate radio station Kurupt FM, freshly released from prison after a "two-stretch" (that's two weeks) for selling knock-off designer gear: "The feds came and ruined everything, as per." It's sharp, silly and surprisingly touching, and on the basis of this excellent pilot, merits a full series.

Dead Boss comes to the end of its run and it's all change at the prison. Helen is moved to a new wing, where she finds a confidante in the shape of guest star Miranda Richardson. But creepy Christine makes every effort to maintain her friendship with her former cellmate, offering a unique take on bonding over arts and crafts: "Slasher bit the head off a sparrow and we're doing potato prints with its blood." Meanwhile the murder case becomes clearer - but only enough to allow for a second series.