A (rather late) Note on BBC3's "Comedy Tuesday"

To mark the return of Little Britain, BBC3 has proclaimed that Tuesday will from hence forth be known as Comedy Tuesday. This is quite a large claim from a channel whose current comedy offerings stretches little further than back-to-back episodes of the shitcom Two Pints of Lager...

Naturally, Little Britain returned on fine form which only the odd sketch missing the mark (as usual involving PM aide Sebastian, last week meeting Nigel Havers). And in a clever move to make Little Britain seem even funnier, BBC3 followed it with something truly terrible. My Life in Film - a vehical for My Family's Kris Marshall – took a good idea (guys who can't separte fact from film) and totally anihilated. Where the Simpsons feature a dozen film spooks per episode, My Life in Film took just the one flick – Top Gun – and tried to lampoon it for half an hour. With direly dull results. Perhaps tomorrow night's Rear Window spook will be better - but with the production values of Two Pints of Lager, this show is a no-starter.

The next hour was far from great. Good Girls Don't raised the odd chortle, though it is basically Boy Meets World with the odd sex gag thrown in - could be a grower. As for The Graham Norton Effect, it's just such a shame what overexposure has down to Norton - he's almost a self-parody of himself.

Too conclude, Tuesdays on BBC3 will now be known as Comedy Half-Hour.