The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week:

Sunday April 2

WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS ROADS: The series ends with Maisie Adam and Suzi Ruffell - who took 10 attempts to pass their driving tests, between them - hitting Morocco's Atlas Mountains on the way to the Sahara Desert. Dave, 8pm

Monday April 3

JUST A MINUTE: Jennifer Saunders, Julian Clary, Lucy Porter and Paul Merton kick off the 91st(!) series. Radio 4, 6.30pm

Tuesday April 4

ALAN DAVIES AS YET UNTITLED: Joining Alan around the table are Jessica Hynes, Emmanuel Sonubi, Amy Gledhill and Patrick Kielty. Dave, 10pm

Thursday April 6

MEET THE RICHARDSONS: The domestic comedy offering a fictionalised look at the married life of Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont returns for a fourth series. In episode one, Jon's having a midlife crisis as his 40th birthday looms and it doesn't help when Ben Elton is in the audience of his work-in-progress show. Meanwhile, Lucy meets Katherine Ryan at the National Comedy Awards and uses it as her chance to get some career advice. Other guest stars this series include Anton Du Beke, Richard Herring, Rachel Parris, Shazia Mirza, Russell Kane, Diane Buswell, Tamzin Outhwaite, Adrian Chiles and Sally Philips. Dave, 10pm

DREAMLAND: Set in town of Margate, this new series is described as 'a dark comedic exploration of multi-generational female relationships, and their (somewhat dysfunctional) family dynamics'. Eldest sister Trish (Freema Agyeman) is pregnant for the third time with her partner Spence (Kiell Smith- Bynoe). And this time, she’s decided: it’s going to be a girl. Her two sisters Clare (Gabby Best) and Leila (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) rally around her with their mum (Frances Barber) and their Margate- legend nan (Sheila Reid), "manifesting" a little girl at Trish’s ‘mani-festival’. But when their other sister, Mel (Lily Allen), makes an unexpected reappearance back into their lives, her return threatens to destabilise the entire family. Sky Atlantic, 9pm

Friday April 7

THE CLEANER:Greg Davies's crime-scene cleaner is called to a shooting in a technology shop, where he finds himself sharing the night shift with Kai (Asim Chaudhry) a shelf stacking conspiracy theorist who is preparing for the end of the world. BBC One, 9.30pm

THE NOW SHOW: David Eagle, Janine Harouni and Jess Robinson join Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, BBC Radio 4, 6.30pm

PILGRIMAGE - THE ROAD THROUGH PORTUGAL: Nabil Abdulrashid is one of the personalities following the Catholic pilgrimage route of the Northern Way to the sanctuary in the city of Fatima, where in 1917, three local shepherd children reported seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Joining the Muslim comedian are sitcom legend Su Pollard, who was raised in the Church of England; Jewish actress Rita Simons; Pentecostal born again Christian, Shane Lynch of Boyzone fame; reality TV star Vicky Pattison, who is agnostic;maths whizz Bobby Seagull, a practising Catholic and Paralympian skier Millie Knight, who is non-practising Church of England. BBC Two, 9pm

Published: 2 Apr 2023