Roland White

ROLAND WHITE: The poet John Keats described autumn as the season of mists, mellow fruitfulness... and a new series of The Great British Bake Off. This is series 15, and the jokes are as bad as ever.

ROLAND WHITE: There aren't many actors better than David Mitchell at pretending to be bewildered by the modern world. It's almost as if he's not actually pretending.

In last night's episode, she discovered that her maternal grandmother Joan was exactly the same in her early teens.

ROLAND WHITE: This was supposedly the idea behind Paddy And Chris: Road Tripping, which sent Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris to Sweden .

'Is it a bad time to say I really like you?' said lovelorn Steff to his school-friend Kelly.

You might feel Alan is somewhat overexposed on television, but he turned out to be the perfect pupil. He really, really can't cook and lives on takeaways.

You know, the bit about gentlemen a-bed in England feeling pretty small about themselves as the returning warriors tell tales from the battlefield.

You know, the bit about gentlemen a-bed in England feeling pretty small about themselves as the returning warriors tell tales from the battlefield.

ROLAND WHITE: There were two women, one black and one white, when a detective sergeant came down to collect his new boss. He introduced himself to the white visitor. Oh dear, rookie error.

There's nothing more reassuring than the sight of Sir David Attenborough striding into shot for a new series - an hour of the best that television has to offer. Asia is split into seven programmes.