Their specialist subjects include Victoria Wood’s sitcom dinnerladies, Marvel’s Iron Man films, Bernie Taupin, and Scorsese’s Goodfellas. She meets the school’s new recruits, who see rituals and potions as a route out of poverty, and local priests calling for the school to be shut down.Ĭomedian Rosie Jones, radio presenter Gemma Bradley, broadcaster Andy Goldstein and singer-songwriter Dan Gillespie Sells are first into the chair as the celebrity version of the veteran quiz returns. Set against the lush background of the New South Wales coast, she stars as Tess, one of three women with varying memories of a traumatic night in childhood that continues to haunt them.Īshionye Ogene reports from Romania about a controversial school in Bucharest set up to train women in witchcraft. Hard on the heels of her gritty recent turn in BBC One’s Time, Jodie Whittaker takes on a very different role in this grippy six-part Australian drama. And what a surprise it proves to be – Cathy’s come home. Now, as they return for a new run, it’s all change again as Beth (Arabella Weir), Eric (Alex Norton), Christine (Elaine C Smith) and the rest of the neighbours turn up at Colin’s for a surprise birthday party he’s arranged for Anne-Marie. It was a departure that might have scuppered a lesser sitcom but, happily, the residents of Latimer Crescent rallied when Siobhan Redmond stepped in as the utterly unhinged Anne-Marie – a new, and very different, partner for the abandoned Colin (Jonathan Watson), which ended up giving the comedy a whole new dynamic.

Proof of that came last season when Doon Mackichan quit her key role as the buttock-clenchingly awful Cathy. That’s largely down to sparklingly obtuse scripts by Simon Carlyle (who died in August) and Gregor Sharp, and a superb ensemble cast who rarely miss an opportunity to, collectively, make the most of a good line. Despite a format so antiquated it could be set in the 1970s, this sitcom about a gang of mismatched but tight-knit Glaswegian neighbours consistently delivers in terms of raucous comedy.

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