Sam Wollaston

Flowers review

Mental-health comedy blossoms into utter brilliance. The second series of Will Sharpe's deeply imaginative comedy-drama has been serious and sensitive in its handling of difficult issues, and hilarious to boot.

The Windsors Royal Wedding Special review

Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie's ruthless comedy is a reminder that you can get away with a lot as long as you are funny.

The Generation Game review

This Easter Sunday resurrection of a BBC classic recaptures the original spirit of show - but has its time passed?

Lee and Dean review

This new mockumentary about laddish cowboy builders may not be original but it is supremely squirm-inducing and goes to places many other comedies daren't.

The League of Gentlemen review

Edward and Tubbs are squatting, and the jobcentre has been relocated. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson have had fun deciding what the years have done to their monsters.

Would I Lie to You review: it's hilarious - honestly

The panel show remains razor-sharp in its 11th series, with host Rob Brydon and team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell a perfect combination.

Michael McIntyre's Big Show review

Bursting into bedrooms and sending texts from the former shadow chancellor's phone ... The comedian's show is back - and hard to dislike.

Detectorists review

Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones shine in the third and final series of this beautifully written and performed slice of life.

Motherland (BBC2) returns, after a pilot, for a series. Good news for middle-class metropolitan breeders for whom it is a funhouse mirror they can point into and chuckle. When I say "they", I mean we. And actually everything is terrifyingly recognisable, testament to the writers' (loads of well-known people) powers of observation, but also why I find it a teeny bit ghastly. Golly, doesn't Anna Maxwell Martin's overwrought Julia annoy well? Thank heavens for Lucy Punch's fabulously Stepfordy queen bee Amanda, and for Diane Morgan's super-droll Liz. And for Ben Crompton, Animal Man, rubbish children's entertainer. Rubbish AND racist. "If your act was amazing I'd put up with a tiny bit of racism," says Liz. Ha!

The End of the F***ing World review

It's so dark that you can barely make out the humour at all - and yet this adaptation of Charles Forsman's comic is totally convincing.