COMEDY

BBC2, 10pm Time for a new run of this critically acclaimed, clever, creepy, funny and bonkers comedy horror anthology series from two-thirds of the League of Gentlemen, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton.

This first episode isn’t actually that spooky or sinister but is more of an old school theatrical farce, with a hint of Shakespeare, thanks to it being set in rhyming couplets.

We are in the 9th floor corridor of London’s luxury Hotel Zanzibar, where the guests checking in include a snooty prince and his homicidal head of security, a man who is the royal’s doppelganger and his fed-up fiancée, plus a suicidal Scot whose twin sons were given up for adoption at birth, a camp northerner and his forgetful mother, a prostitute and a hypnotist.

A comedy of errors featuring swapped room numbers, wandering guests, drugged wine and apple pies leads to them all coming together. The cracking cast includes Rory Kinnear, Hattie Morahan, Bill Paterson, Kevin Eldon and Tanya Franks. PRESENTERS Emma Willis and Rylan Clark-Neal