Glorious send-up

Bellamy's People (BBC2, Thursday) began life in 2006 as a spoof Radio Four phone-in show called Down the Line presented by 'award-winning' Gary Bellamy (Rhys Thomas) with the Fast Show's Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse playing the various callers.

Now it has moved to TV and its satirical target — not before time — are all those programmes where celebrities drive round the country meeting people and saying, 'Isn't Britain brilliant?' So, in his classic Triumph Stag with a Union flag painted ...