Funny Old Year

While this Jason Manford-helmed retrospective of annual events hardly seems a comparable tradition to Clive James's satirical compendiums of yesteryear, AFOY has nethertheless become a regular annual entry in the schedules. Joined by some of the biggest names in British comedy, Manford cocks a wry Mancunian snook at py]2014[/y]'s most exciting and exasperating moments. Expect the Suárez bite, Ukip, and bendy iPhones to be given the full treatent.

It's three years since Jason Manford resigned unceremoniously from The One Show, after alleged personal indiscretions made the headlines. Although the BBC has yet to welcome the Mancunian funnyman back into the fold, the whiff of scandal didn't dent his popularity for long: back in June he embarked on a 12-month, 200-date national tour.

Here he takes a night off to poke fun at the gaffes and fads of 2013. Judging by his current show, the gags will be slick but gentle - unlikely to offend the sensibilities of even the prissiest great-aunt.

Jason Manford corrals a slew of stand-up comedians into taking a wry, sideways look at the past 12 months. Recorded in front of a live studio audience a couple of weeks ago, Manford and his fellow comics draw on the best, the worst and the weirdest things that happened in 2012. Much of the material comes from the showpiece events that supposedly brought the whole country together: the Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics and the Paralympics.

If the air of positivity around those galas means they don't turn out to be the fertile comic ground the comics would hope for, there's good mileage in this year's nonstop rain, and in such unforeseen cultural phenomena as Gangnam Style by Korean internet star Psy.