Comedy

Hey, you know those bad things I said about The IT Crowd in my last episode review? Well, forget 'em, because every last one has been forgiven with this - best episode ever.

You know when an episode of The IT Crowd is good when you're choking on a cup of tea and it's streaming out both nostrils. A couple of brilliant comic moments in Tramps Like Us literally almost caused me to spray my laptop with tea.

Having watched two episodes of this third series of The IT Crowd, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the shine has gone off the series. A bit.

Tonight's episode - titled "Are We Not Men?" -has Jen more active outside the office and away from the boys again. Same as last episode. Have they run out ofthings for her to do in the IT department? Instead, she's off on a lame date with a guy whose sole comedic value was that he looked like a magician. Sorry, but Little Britain took the monopoly on that one years ago.

Did you watch the impossibly long-titled Peter Kay’s Britain’s Got The Pop Factor (and possibly a new Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice – phew!) last night?

Britain’s Got The Pop Factor is a spoof on all the reality TV talent shows we have in the UK. Kay himself stars as Geraldine, a transvestite who enters the competition, but has the tabloids reveal his secret. It even hauls in past Pop Idol judges Pete Waterman, Nikki Chapman and Neil “Doctor” Fox to act as judges (and heartless industry moguls).