The Brothers McGregor, Thursday, 18.35, Forces TV

And it’s Forces to the rescue again with another comedy oddity, surely getting its first TV outing since those demented early days of Granada Plus 25 years ago which showed absolutely everything Granada made leading from What The Papers Say to The Grumbleweeds via Albion Market. Actually given how much Granada, especially in its early days, took Corrie extremely seriously and were incredibly sensitive to any accusations of it being trivial, it’s perhaps surprising its two fully-fledged spin-offs were both sitcoms, Pardon The Expression in the sixties and this in the eighties. This one’s a bit tenuous, mind, as Scouse chancers Cyril and Wesley first appeared in a single episode of Corrie in 1982 and it took three years for them to appear in this show, played by different actors, but it was written by two of Corrie’s lead writers and produced by Corrie legend Bill Podmore. And with the great Paul Barber as Wesley it’s all good fun.