Frankie Boyle's New World Order

Frankie Boyle's New World Order delivered, as always, with an end-of-year roundup featuring a full four fantastic guests and an audience (they'd presumably known he wasn't Michael McIntyre) that at one stage was left jaws agape at a joke's wizard tastelessness. Don't do that: the flies will get in.

It is hard not to contemplate Boyle's take on the events of 2019 with a mixture of horror and dark glee. It's fair to say he'll have plenty to get his teeth into. Regular guests Sara Pascoe and Miles Jupp will be joining him in a surely doomed attempt to make sense of the last 12 months.

Frankie Boyle's election countdown

From a Dickensian Tory cabinet to the ghosts of Brexit promises past, the comedian brings you his take on the election.

Why Frankie Boyle should not be banned from the BBC

There were calls this week for controversial comedian Frankie Boyle to be banned from the BBC after he cracked a joke about IRA terrorism. Speaking on his BBC Two show, Frankie Boyle's New World Order, Boyle - a favourite of edgy teenagers everywhere - mocked Theresa May's recent attempts to thrash out a Brexit compromise with her cabinet at Chequers. With so many leading Tories in one place, Boyle joked: 'Where the fuck are the IRA when you need them?'

Timed to coincide with the UK's lurch into uncharted territory, courtesy of Article 50 (although an extension remains a distinct possibility at the time of writing), the acerbic comedian returns for a new series that sees him try to make sense of the chaos surrounding Brexit.

TV's most splenetic satirical show returns to pour scorn on that disreputable lot in the Commons. Brexit, inevitably, is set to dominate, but expect a withering dissection of whatever nonsense scandal has bubbled up after we've gone to print as well.