Tracy-Ann Oberman

What do you get when you cross Hugh Dennis and Neil Morrissey with an unremarkable script about a weatherman and his woes? This one-off comedy from Doug Naylor, co-creator of Red Dwarf. Dennis stars as Bill Onion, a middle-aged TV weatherman fired from the BBC and trying to claw his way back with the help of his best friend Jez (Morrissey), Jez's hostile wife (Helen George) and his own wife (Tracy-Ann Oberman). It's the first of three new pilot episodes in a revamp of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse strand.

Tracy-Ann Oberman interview

Tracy-Ann Oberman has revealed she enjoyed playing a "nice woman" on Over To Bill.

Tracy-Ann Oberman: UK Jewish comedy voice discovered

Tracy-Ann Oberman has said that there has been a discovery of a British Jewish comedy voice in TV and movies in recent years.

A strong new one-off sitcom created by Father Ted writer Arthur Mathews and The IT Crowd's Matt Berry, who also stars as Steven Toast, legend of stage and screen. Having been a success for years, Toast is on his uppers after taking the lead role in a controversial West End play. Eager to get his career back on track he lets his London agent (Fiona Mollison) convince him to audition for a popular TV drama - the only problem being that the producer is in prison. Enjoyably bonkers, with a good supporting cast including Robert Bathurst and Tracy-Ann Oberman.

Tracy-Ann Oberman tests your soap knowledge

The actor and writer explains why she's bringing the first soap quiz show to radio with Sud's Law.

Sud's Law was a panel game about soap operas, hosted by former EastEnder and Dirty Den slayer Tracy-Ann Oberman who also devised the show with Linda Marks.

So long as soaps continue to be incredibly popular the idea has potential, although its success will very much depend on tightening up the writing and maintaining the calibre of guests. On this occasion, it wasn't actually the Soap actors who made the programme worth a listen, but Susan Calman who amused with her impressive medical know-how gleaned from her obsession with Casualty, Holby City and Doctors.

I love this series and I love Mum and Dad Goodman (Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter). When the "bambinos" turn up for dinner on this particular Friday night, dad - mildly deaf and obsessed with his aged copies of New Scientist - emerges from the garage clad in a vest, shorts and cut-off wellies. "Why are you dressed like that like a sex attacker?" wonders Adam (Simon Bird). What follows is the usual collision of family in-jokes, misunderstandings and general silliness. Dad has been ordered by mum to burn his beloved magazines, but he's mapped out a ruse designed to pull the wool over her eyes. Meanwhile Aunty Val (Tracy-Ann Oberman) is on her way round to show off her mother-of-the-bride dress. I am delighted to admit that I laughed immoderately all the way through; at the gag about the mobile stuck on speakerphone; at neighbour Jim (super-twitchy Mark Heap) and his supernatural fear of his perfectly timid dog. And at dad's Join The Dots Sex Book. Don't miss.

The joke that'll make you laugh - or fume

Actress Tracy-Ann Oberman talks about her controversial quest to uncover the secret of comedy.

Paul Mendelson's canny, gentle comedy, about a woman up against religious tradition, was first heard on Radio 4 in the Nineties. It wears well. It could, almost, be about a woman vicar in a traditional parish or a nun who knows (as one or two sisters I have met know) that one of these days there won't be enough men to be priests. Tracy-Ann Oberman plays the new rabbi ministering to a Reform Jewish congregation who gets to know and like (and the liking is mutual) the orthodox rabbi and his wife in the neighbouring synagogue. First episode of four.