A fresh angle for Mortimer & Whitehouse
Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week:
Sunday September 3
THE REUNION: This week's episode - the 200th - brings together the original team behind the satirical TV hit of the 1980s, Spitting Image. Recorded in front of an audience in Cambridge, where the Spitting Image archives are now held by the university library, host Kirsty Walk relives the stories of a show which very nearly didn't happen. It features co-creators Peter Fluck and Roger Law, producers Jon Blair and John Lloyd, writers Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, puppeteer Louise Gold, voice artists Chris Barrie and Steve Nallon, and the man who made it all possible, Central Television commissioner Charles Denton. Radio 4, 11.15am
MORTIMER & WHITEHOUSE GONE FISHING: The loveliest programme on TV returns for a sixth series with Paul, Bob and terrier Ted travelling to Wales to fish in the remote and stunning landscape of the River Irfon and the Upper Wye. It’s also Ted’s birthday, but how can they match the last celebrations? BBC Two, 9pm
Monday September 4
RHOD GILBERT'S GROWING PAINS: The panel show returns for a fifth series with Guz Khan, Rachel Parris and James Buckley all competing to see who had the most traumatic youth. Buckley’s drama teacher spills the beans on his school antics, Khan relates a horrifying story about destroying some Year 7s’ chips and Rachel Parris debuts her teenage love poetry to a 90s heartthrob. Comedy Central, 9pm
PAUL SINHA'S PERFECT PUB QUIZ: The stand-up again combines two of his loves - comedy and trivia - in the return of his Radio 4 series. Radio 4. 6.30pm
Wednesday September 6
ANFAMOL: This new Welsh language comedy-drama, created by Rhiannon Boyle from a play she wrote, centres on Ani (played by Bethan Ellis-Owen), a lawyer who decides to use a sperm bank to have a baby, only to struggle with post-natal depression and motherhood. Ellis-Owen said: 'S4C has never shown a drama so full of masturbation, vibrators, vaginas and sexy South American men who speak Welsh before! It's a play full of dirty jokes, sex, slang and the stuff women experience but they're too afraid, or too embarrassed to talk about. S4c, 9pm, then on iPlayer and S4C Clic (with subtitles).
Thursday September 7
CLASSIC MOVIES: THE STORY OF THE LADYKILLERS:A look at the dark comedy classic starring Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker and Peter Sellers. Rated as one of the greatest comedies committed to celluloid, William Rose’s screenplay won him an Oscar nomination and a Bafta while the 76-year old Katie Johnson won a Baftafor her standout role as Mrs Wilberforce.Sky Arts, 8pm
Friday September 8
MRS BROWN'S BOYS:A new four-part series starts in typically classy style - with jokes about granddad’s bowel movements. BBC One, 9.30pm
THE NEWS QUIZ: Andy Zaltzman returns for a new series of the topical panel show. Radio 4, 6.30pm
Published: 3 Sep 2023