Sarah Millican

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Sarah Millican's bawdy jokes have brought her brickbats and a new BBC series. She tells Gerard Gilbert where it began.

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Audio: Millican surprised at what she can get away with

Award-winning comedian Sarah Millican has admitted she is surprised with how much she has been able to get away with on her first television show.

Speaking to Mark Lawson on BBC Radio 4's Front Row, she said she knew she would have to clean up her risqué comedy to transfer it to TV, but said she did not have to tone it down as much as she thought.

Millican also spoke of her "irritation" at audience members filming her stand-up shows.

Comic Sarah Millican in row with fans over filming

A row has broken out between comedian Sarah Millican and some of her Black Country fans over the filming of part of her show on mobile phones.

Gregg Wallace, Sarah Millican and Gabby Roslin compete to convince Frank Skinner to consign their bêtes noires to oblivion. But Wallace brings a curmudgeonly, grumpy-old-man air to his nominations for the imaginary vault-of-loathing beneath the stage. His pet hates involve "old people in front of you at cash machines" and "all live music concerts": both ideas that tip over from admirably controversial to downright mean.

Millican rails against experts who befuddle her, Roslin trashes Olympics moaners, and there's a guest appearance from the London Vegetable Orchestra - people in bow ties playing a tune on pumpkins. It's better than you'd think.

After a five-year hiatus, this light-hearted comedy series has returned with a new format (it's now a panel show) and a new host (quick-witted Frank Skinner). Three celebrities compete to have their pet peeves consigned to the dumper. Tonight MasterChef's Gregg Wallace, comedian Sarah Millican and sports presenter Gabby Logan go head-to-head. Wallace wages war on barbecues ("I've seen a man with a sausage on fire, turning it"), Millican complains about cats who ignoreher (she mews at them to get their attention), and a worthy Logan gets on her high horse about anti-Olympic attitudes ("you don't have to love sport, you have to love... the human spirit").

It's back, with shiny new titles, Frank Skinner in place of Paul Merton and not one but three guests competing to have pet hates banished for ever. Robert Webb, Danny Baker and Fern Britton select peeves such as homework, sci-fi, PE and punk, but it has all the awkwardness of a bad dinner party and little of the easy, intimate wit and banter of the original show; the best fun to be had is Webb's seeming disdain for the rather tedious Britton, who seems to think she's on Grumpy Old Women. Maybe future contestants - among them Alistair McGowan, Josh Groban, Sarah Millican and Alice Cooper - will make this more likeable, though they'll have a job getting laughs from the likes of Gregg Wallace, Gabby Logan and Mark Lawrenson.

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Sarah Millican: Gossip girl

She's the unlikeliest comedy hit of the year - the one-time lowly civil servant from South Shields whose total candour and killer punchlines have won her a vast audience.