Chris Langham excels as cowed Tom Thompson, a well-off family man who bonds with a damaged stranger, Blake ("Sometimes I just come here and cry"), by a peaceful pond.

There are moments when I wonder if the air conditioning at The Stand will add undue weight to the already pregnant pauses between some of Phill Jupitus's routines. The Never Mind the Buzzcocks regular hasn't done stand up for 10 years and he admits that he is "feeling his way back in".

On his journey from cult Edinburgh Fringe favourite to big venue comic, Mark Watson has notched up the kinds of TV appearances a graduating stand up might be expected to make, including Mock the Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, but it's clear tonight that performing to his largest live audience yet is the feather in his cap that is tickling him the most.

Slight stand-up Simon Amstell has again turned his lashing tongue to the abuse of a music-based national treasure.

Multi-platinum-selling pop-opera sensation Groban doesn't get much of a fair hearing this side of the Atlantic.

Ever since Popworld, Amstell has come across as a highly intelligent yet awkwardly anxious geek – and his stand-up is no different.

With churning inevitability, The Taking of Prince Harry has the pundits in a lather. The latest in a mini-string of Channel 4 shockumentaries, last night's 90-minute flight of imagination showed the hypothetical kidnapping of the Queen's better-looking grandson (snigger), playing out the drama with interjections from experts in the field of... well, royal kidnapping.

Simon Amstell's neurotic family gatherings turn out to be a rich source of laughs in this six-part sitcom, starring Amstell as "Simon Amstell", in which he and co-writer Dan Swimer conjure a Curb Your Enthusiasm-style sitcom for E4 types.