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TV review: Roast Battle UK, Comedy Central UK

While I don't actually think kids would be jotting down the one-liners lobbed by the likes of Chris Ramsey and Tom Rosenthal at each other for later use themselves I do think the programmes risks normalising dubious attitudes.

Another series of competitive insults, hosted, naturally, by Jimmy Carr. Roast Battle is neither big nor clever, but it is reliably funny, and the bear pit atmosphere is effective: the relieved hugs at the end tell you the comics feel the rush. Tonight: Fern Brady v Ivo Graham, then Chris Ramsey v Tom Rosenthal.

Friday Night Dinner, Channel 4 review

Predictable but fun.

Friday Night Dinner, review

This gentle sitcom should be required viewing for anti-Semitic trolls.

TV review: Friday Night Dinner, C4

This is a grimly funny episode full of great lines and fabulous performances, including the dog.

Friday Night Dinner, Channel 4, review

Still a delicious mixture of slapstick and acid after five series.

Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal interview

Returning to their childhood home for a meal at the end of the working week, bickering brothers Adam and Jonny (Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal) immediately revert to childish hijinks.

The fourth in this amiably anachronistic series set in ancient Rome begins with the humorously sudden death of a key character, crushed by a stone on the construction site of "Number One, The Forum" - the project of Robert Lindsay's smooth, prattling property developer. Marcus (Tom Rosenthal) makes a lame bid for compensation as Ryan Sampson's Grumio eats his way through his grief. But then Jason (Jonathan Pointing), the builder responsible for the accident, enters their lives.