Sharon Lougher

What more could you want from a panel show than the brilliant Frankie Boyle and Andy Parsons? Well, probably just one more thing - the sharp and sure David Mitchell, always a hoot on these sorts of things. His fellow guest is the likeably down-to-earth Sarah Millican.

Another splendidly silly foray into Vic and Bob's playpen, featuring a 'jazz fight', more moaning from Angelos the burger van owner, Jack Dee trying not to laugh and Kim from How Clean Is Your House? offering up some priceless facial expressions when Vic turns on the charm and turns a Marigold glove into a fish. Who says TV doesn't teach you anything?

Imagine leaving home as a wayward teen at 17, and then reluctantly returning to your parents' middle-class suburban hell 12 years later, having failed to make it - and still being treated like a kid as if nothing has changed. That's the idea behind this new comedy from Baby Cow (the people behind the excellent Gavin & Stacey) but it flounders thanks to a script and director bereft of nuance. Some old fashioned references will raise a smile but, on the evidence of this series opener, it's not exactly BBC2 prime-time material.

Time for series three of this sketch series and Ms Brand is still failing to wow us. None of it is terribly original but at least the music parodies are halfway fun: Kanye West espouses the virtues of Autotune, and Lady Gaga sings about her own pointlessness.

Vic, Bob and George Dawes are back, older but definitely no wiser. This opener to the new series of the gloriously daft quiz has Matt Lucas singing about old people's homes, Bob Mortimer 'revealing' the name of Amy Winehouse's favourite Tube station, DJ Ironik failing to remember the breed of his dog and Christine Bleakley enduring Vic's thigh-rubbing. Plus the Dove From Above is back, as is Ulrika-kaka (pitted against other team captain Jack Dee). Wednesday nights just got a whole lot funnier.

The latest cult heroes from the live comedy circuit to land on BBC3 is this sketch outfit, whose ramshackle shows are endearing and wonderful. Here they have added a narrative arc to things - they play three inept town councillors - but their madcap spirit still thrives in the TV studio. The audience are a part of the action, ludicrous set-pieces include a Tracey Emin impression and a song about Jews, and the slapstick reminds us of Bottom... always a fine thing.

If you've still yet to encounter this jaw-droppingly funny piano-playing virtuoso, then catch him here. This live show from the wild-haired Australian includes everything from sex to death to dancing bears - and a terrific song about being ginger that you'll be humming for ages afterwards.

Charlie Brooker has a rival (um, sort of) to his You Have Been Watching - Steve Jones with his own celeb game show chewing over recent telly. The fact that his team captains are Fern Britton and Jason Manford, the cut-price Peter Kay, will give you an idea of the level this is pitched at.

Here's something to savour from writer/stars Joanna Scanlan, Vicki Pepperdine, Jo Brand and director Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It) - an extraordinarily funny, jet-black three-part sitcom set in a miserable NHS geriatric ward where the nurses are hopelessly bounded by bureaucracy and political correctness. Frighteningly familiar at times - which is surely partly down to the fact Brand used to be a nurse herself before she launched into stand-up.

A cold-hearted sitcom brutally ribbing something close to the Beeb's heart: the producers, stringers and reporters in war zones itching to get their three minutes on News At Ten. The script for this opener, set in a conflict-ridden African backwater, is not quite as zinging as its obvious point of comparison, Drop The Dead Donkey, but there are at least plenty of heroes and villains, including Doon Mackichan's stressed-out producer and Martin Jarvis's lazy, big-shot reporter.