Dishonest living

The least truthful show on TV returns for a new series tonight with Ed Balls and Jo Brand joining Lee Mack in one fibbers’ corner, and Kimberly Wyatt and David Baddiel in David Mitchell’s den of falsehood. Did Ed once negotiate the Home Office budget from a children’s ball pit? David thinks that ‘Balls in a ball pit’ has the ring of something that a telly person might have made up for a comedy panel show – tune in to discover if his instincts are correct…