Rob Delaney

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney pick up where they left off: season three opens by continuing the scene in which "Rob" discovers "Sharon" has furtively bought the morning-after pill. Has she cheated? She was too drunk to know, so there follows an almost agonising farce in which two vulnerable characters wonder if their relationship is over. Thanks to Horgan and Delaney's mastery at mixing cringe with rude, roaring laughs, though, it's still a joyful catharsis.

Catastrophe's Rob Delaney: interview

The writer and comedian is also a huge fan of the UK: "I love the NHS. I love the BBC. I love the Tube. I love the bus. I love tea. I love bacon sandwiches"

Catastrophe series 3 preview

Between seasons one or two of Catastrophe, the action leapt forward several years to land Sharon and Rob with two young kids. But no such trickery this time around, as series three starts exactly where the last one ended: with Rob finding a receipt for the morning-after pill his partner brought after a drunken fling, and Sharon with some explaining to do.

Preview - Catastrophe

A welcome return for the excruciating sitcom that is guaranteed to have you squirming in your seat.

Catastrophe shows no sign of getting any less funny

But the real darkness came in Rob's steady character shift from sweet, easy-going goof to miserable control freak as, out of work and back on the bottle, his frustrations focused in on the possibility of Sharon's disloyalty. His alcoholism has sat like an unexploded bomb beneath the surface of this sitcom until now; the question that seems bound to dominate is whether it will detonate fully and take out the relationship completely.

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney discuss their comedy

The co-writers, who also star in Channel 4's sitcom Catastrophe, which returns for its third series, wanted to portray a recognisable marriage, not a sitcom marriage, that 'in real life' would end in a 'murder-suicide'.

In bed with Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan

It's an unusual, slightly alarming privilege to be invited to watch a "bedroom scene". Especially given that, in Channel 4's superb sitcom, Catastrophe, the bedroom sometimes feels like one of the few places where married couple Sharon and Rob (writer/stars Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney) don't get it on.

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With a flittering light finally in sight at the end of the slime-slathered tunnel that was 2016, Jimmy Carr returns to help roast a year that left us all feeling burned. Richard Ayoade, Rob Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Sarah Millican, David Mitchell and Romesh Ranganathan make up this year's teams, with Jon Snow, Charles Dance and a roster of celebrity inquisitors on hand to posit questions on everything from Boaty McBoatface to Brexit.