Comedy Playhouse: Hospital People

(BBC1, 10.35pm-11.05pm)

The BBC’ s revived Comedy Play house strand is back with threenewpilots, allhopingto becoming fully fledged sitcoms. We’ll soon see Alun Armstrong and Alison Stead man in Broken Biscuits, while Nigel Havers and Sarah Had land are tea ming up for Stop/Start, butwebeginwith HospitalPeople. The mock u men tary follows a group of characters united by the fact that their lives revolve around the local hospital– andtheyareall played by Tom Binns. His creations include manager SusanMitchell, spiritualist porter I a nD Mont fort, and someone who will be familiar to fans of B inns’ stand-up, deluded DJ Ivan Bracken bury.