Of course, you should never apologise for quality… and thanks to David Walliams and Rob Brydon, Ronnie Corbett will be returning to our screens as the star of a new sitcom set in a care home.

Corbett has described the part of the aging lothario as a “sort of Hugh Hefner character”… and it’s an idea that certainly piques the interest.

I can’t wait to see it, especially since I enjoyed Corbett’s last regular sitcom outing Sorry! - so it’s just as well that this week’s Comedy Connections (which airs this evening at 10.35, BBC One) covers the 1980s series and features Corbett and the series’ writers discussing the show’s appeal and the birth of the catchphrase “Language, Timothy!”

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The BBC have reported that Matt Lucas and David Walliams are working on two new films.

Best known for Little Britain (although their Rock Profiles series for UK Play was certainly as funny in places), Lucas and Walliams are apparently developing a new project with Working Title (Hot Fuzz) while simultaneously working with Dreamworks.

Shooting on the US version of Little Britain is apparently underway following the resolution of the Writer’s Strike in the USA.  10 new characters are apparently planned, as well as cultural revisions to some current favourites in the HBO-produced series.

Success in any of these projects would be significant; Lucas and Walliams are now able to command audiences around the world on a par with the Pythons in the late 1970s.

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The Curse of Comedy series on BBC Four ended last week with David Walliams as Frankie Howerd in Rather You Than Me, and it was a bleak portrait of a very funny man, plagued by self doubt, self loathing and nerves, stemming it seemed from a period of abuse from his father during childhood.

The series has been about the dark side of some of the most popular stars in comedy and entertainment, and despite the success with which The Curse of Steptoe and Son replicated the bitter-sweet undercurrent of the actual series I do feel that Rather You Than Me presented us with a telling portrait of stardom, homosexuality and devotion.

Walliams was justifiably lauded as Frankie Howerd, while Rafe Spall was excellent as his partner Dennis Heymer.

I’m sure that Frankie could not have been so terribly unhappy for his whole life - there’s no way he could have managed to work - however in the context of the film it is reassuring to know that Dennis and he remained together until the end, despite one another.

A bleak portrait, superbly played.  I hope the BBC treat us to a further series.

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By far and away the most interesting instalment of BBC Four’s Curse of Comedy season is tonight’s final instalment, “Rather You Than Me” which as you may now stars David Walliams as Frankie Howerd.

That isn’t to denigrate the other films – in particular the Tony Hancock and Joan le Mesurier tale was something I had never heard of before, and I found it fascinating to watch.  It has been a great series, but I feel that that in terms of cultural icons, Howerd is the most enduring figure of them all.

So turn on, tune in and titter ye not – although bearing in mind much of the content, this will be an interesting profile of a closet homosexual who became one of Britain’s best loved comic actors, I expect there will be more tears than laughs.