BRITAIN TODAY TONIGHT, C4, 10pm
THE best comedy these days is coming from Sky Atlantic and Channel 4, so I was keen to see this new series.

Starring Kayvan Novak of Fonejacker and Four Lions, it’s a mock American news show featuring reports from Britain with its tough-talking presenter, Douglas Digger Daley, claiming he “grabs Britain by the pussy till its Brexit goes hard!” American news is being mocked just as much as damp little Britain.

Novak plays the TV anchor as well as the roving reporters in the UK who interview bewildered members of the public.

The first story is about terrorism and how CCTV could be used to catch a bomber. The reporter gets wildly excited when a lorry tries to enter a car park. Could that be a terrorist? “Nah. Making deliveries to Asda.”

We have a report on road rage from Ken Kildoon, “Scottish Journalist of the Year, 1991”, who surveys British opinion on cyclists, Uber drivers and Romanians wearing Yoda costumes.

And who is the mysterious “Lmfao” whose name keeps popping up in WhatsApp exchanges intercepted by the Government?

JAMESTOWN, SKY1, 9pm
I DIDN’T expect to find historical drama on Sky1, and especially not on a Friday – the night normally reserved for daft, lightweight stuff.

Jamestown is a new eight-part drama about the women who were sent to the new colony of Virginia in 1619 to join the Englishmen who’d gone before them.

They were sent as “maids to make wives” to populate the colony with English families, though our first sight of one of these women is as a corpse. When the women disembark they are claimed by men who’ve paid for an English wife, their names being marked on a register.

The story follows three of the women as they begin their new life in the colony.