NEW SITCOM Avoidance, 9.30pm, BBC1

THE role of the useless, conflict-averse and procrastinating Jonathan is tailor-made for comedian Romesh Ranganathan (pictured), with his NHS specs and hangdog manner (he is the co-writer, after all). Jonathan finds it almost impossible to face reality, even when his wife (Jessica Knappett) tells him that she’s leaving him. Can Jonathan finally get a backbone for the sake of his son? A contemporary family sitcom that is more bittersweet than laugh-out-loud funny.