The week's best comedy on TV and radio

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

Sunday October 6

STEVENS & McCARTHY: Louise McCarthy and Gayle Telfer Stevens return for a third series of their fast-paced sketch comedy show. BBC One Scotland, 10.40pm.

Monday October 7

ALMA'S NOT NORMAL: The second series of Sophie Willan's acclaimed comedy return with her titular character trying to make it as a an actor and a comedian. She bags herself a talent agent, who turns out to be a bit of a blagger. She buys herself some new wheels, that she can’t afford. And lands herself an acting role that is completely demoralising. Meanwhile her mum Lin (Siobhan Finneran) is back in hospital and has discovered a penchant for witchcraft and her best mate Leanne (Jayde Adams) has transformed a truck into a bar that’s become Bolton’s biggest hot-spot. Willan talks about the show here .BBC Two, 10pm

WILL & RALF SHOULD KNOW BETTER: Friends for more than 20 years after meeting on the sitcom Two Pints Of Lager, Will Mellor and Ralf Little are now two middle-aged men who, in this show, travel the UK in an electric car, Producers say they learn more about themselves and each other in a few weeks than they ever have in two decades of friendship. Along the way they try to impress the world’s strongest woman with their ‘strength’, chat up nettles (yes, really) in an eco-village and live like Stone Age cavemen. U&Dave, 10pm and all episodes streaming on U

Tuesday October 8

ALI WONG: SINGLE LADY: In this new stand-up special the comic talks about post-divorce life and starting new quest for love in middle-age, dating younger and older men. The show as filmed at The Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, as part of this year's Netflix is a Joke festival.

JAMALI MADDIX: FOLLOW THE LEADER: In the last episode of the series, the comedian travels to Chicago to spend time behind bars with the inmates at DuPage County Correctional Facility U&Dave, 10pm

Friday October 11

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU: Amol Rajan hosts for the first time with comedian Miles Jupp and former Tory MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns on the panel. BBC One, 9pm

THE CLEANER: In this week's episode, Greg Davies's crime scene cleaner is called to a shepherd’s hut owned by the formidable Lara (Gemma Whelan). It also reunites Taskamster series 17 contestant Steve Pemberton with Davies, as he pkays Lara’s gardener Donald, while Vicki Pepperdine is her mother Caroline. BBC One, 9.30pm

Published: 6 Oct 2024