TV Club #3 Flipside

This week's Who Do You Think You Are? featured Alan Carr as the latest celeb to trace their family history. In an incredibly tenuous link, this week's TV Club investigates his TV history, going back to one of the shows which gave him his break on television and saw the start of his partnership with Justin Lee Collins.

In this episode of Flipside TV, the rare sight of the lesser-bearded JLC hosts the channel surfing show and guests include Karl Pilkington, star of the Ricky Gervais podcasts and An Idiot Abroad.

TV Club #1 Brass Eye

Tonight at 9 sees the terrestrial TV premiere of Chris Morris' controversial comedy Four Lions. Kicking off a new section of this blog we go back to 1997 to check out an episode an episode of his TV series of Brass Eye, which after the recent riots seems more topical than ever.

For those wanting more, the entire collection of Brass Eyeepisodes is available from 4oD here

Review: American - The Bill Hicks Story

Charting the life and death of the influential comic, it's the archive footage of a young Bill Hicks and the innovative, animated way in which its brought to life that sets American out from the usual talking head documentaries.

The majority of contributes are either friends or family, so its not exactly the most rounded discussion of Hicks and his ups and downs - plus it spends a bit too long making the point that most of America didn't get his shtick, but taken as a tribute to the man, its and absorbing experience throughout.