1. Cradle to Grave, BBC2
Motormouth Danny Baker’s autobiography gets the sitcom treatment. Baker is a co-writer himself so expect lots of strange-but-true tales of growing up poor but ‘appy in sarf London.
2. Together, BBC3
Jonny Sweet, last seen in C4’s cop satire Babylon, stars in this self-penned adaptation of his cult Radio 4 series in which a new romantic relationship is explored and dissected from all angles.
Not long to wait here as this returns next week. Steve Delaney and Rory Kinnear are back again but this time on BBC1. Is the Beeb hoping the knockabout fun will make it the new Miranda?
4. People Just Do Nothing, BBC3
The film crew returns to document the ups and downs - mostly downs – of life at pirate radio station Kurupt FM. While the fly-on-the-wall style is hardly original there was great wit and humour in the first run, which started out online before moving to TV.
5. Car Share, BBC iPlayer
And talking of starting out online, this new sitcom from Peter Kay is going to air first on the internet. Kay co-stars with Sian Gibson as two workers travelling in the same car and learning about each other over the six-part series. Interestingly it is not written by Kay, but by Tim Reid and Paul Coleman
6. Crims, BBC3
This has been lazily dubbed by some – OK, me – as a Yoof Porridge – as it is set in a young offenders institute, but the cast, including stand-up Elis James and character comic Cariad Lloyd, is pretty good and comedian Adam Kay is one of the writers with Dan Swimer, so it is well worth a look.
7. Cockroaches, ITV2 (pictured)
ITV2 has had plenty of success with Plebs, a sitcom set in the past, and now they are hoping to notch up more praise for this comedy set in the near future after a nuclear war. The young stars Daniel Lawrence Taylor and Esther Smith are joined by Nigel Planer, Caroline Quentin, Jaime Winstone, Jack Whitehall, Robert Bathurst and Alexander Armstrong. Writer Freddy Syborn co-wrote Bad Education.
8. Catastrophe, C4
Irish-American comedy with Sharon “Pulling” Horgan and Rob “Massive on Twitter” Delaney as a couple living and loving in London and dealing with the inevitable complications that life lobs at them. Supporting players include Carrie Fisher and Ashley “Extras” Jensen.
9. Morning Has Broken, C4
Eagerly anticipated new sitcom from the warped, twisted mind of Julia Davies, who gave us Nighty Night and Hunderby. This time round Davies plays a daytime TV star struggling to keep it together.
10. Nurse, BBC2
Johnny Depp’s favourite actor Paul Whitehouse returns as various different characters visited by the local psychiatric nurse. Got to be better than the Aviva ads.
