Steve Bennett (I)

Working Christmas review

The story keeps your attention, as our characters become more rounded - and crucially more vulnerable - while the playfulness of the performers provides a suitably festive wrapping for that engaging yarn.

Review: Backing Into The Spotlight by Michael Whitehall

Who would have thought Nigel Havers' agent would have published not one, but two volumes of memoirs? That's twice as many as the actor himself.

The Celebrity Voicemail Show review

It may be a grand idea for radio, and a good showcase for Novak's versatile vocal talents, but it's rather arbitrary for telly.

Hailmakers review

Chinese Burn might be this year's BBC Three 'Comedy Slice' that's got the most press attention, given its focus on an under-represented ethnic group, but Hailmakers is the funniest.

David Ephgrave: Now Who's a Comedian? review

Ephgrave comes across as a nice guy with a robust delivery, but the show is a festival of mediocrity - mild, indifferent stuff that it's very hard to buy into. The titular question remains unanswered.

Chinese Burn review

As it stands, it might require some arm-twisting for Chinese Burn to go to series.

Scottish Comedian Of The Year 2017 final

The Scottish Comedian Of The Year final has been held in some large and distinguished spaces, from the Barrowlands Ballroom to Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket, but this year's venue is a more modest affair - the new Rotunda comedy club.

BBC3's Enterprice and Sticky reviewed

Enterprice is a likeable, erm, enterprise and the two leads - Kayode Ewumi and Daniel Ezre - are very watchable. Altogether, though, is something of a rough diamond - charming but not exceptional.

They might have recruited Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley to star in Sticky, but it seems like a stinker.

Christopher Bliss: Writing Wrongs review

There's perhaps not an awful lot of depth to the character, but his eager affability, the silly pastiche of bad prose and the more knowing subtext will, as Bliss might write, cause the edges of your lips to be dragged up in the direction of your eyes, making the U-shape of an upside-down umbrella. Smile, in other words.

Greg Davies review

Davies's litany of grossly inappropriate stories - from his youth, his teaching career, or as a man who should know better - prove ferociously funny for their endlessly shameful transgressions.