Bonkers (ITV1); Benidorm (ITV1); Inside Waco (C4): AT least Bonkers lives up to its title.

This new comedy-drama from Sally Wainwright - writer of At Home With The Braithwaites and The Amazing Mrs Pritchard among others - is truly, madly, deeply and very definitely stark, raving mad.

Whether you like it will depend on your sense of humour. It is very rude and crude. What begins as a routine suburban sit-com soon degenerates into a bare-bottomed sex farce and ends up in a fantasy world of its own. A sort of Carry On comedy with knobs on.

Tony (Mark Addy) is revealed at his 20th anniversary party as an adulterer and father of the baby of a schoolgirl taught by his wife Helen (Liza Tarbuck).

He writes scripts for a TV soap called Jubilee Terrace whose new producer has declared the series "tired and repetitive" - and Tony notes: "She was looking at me when she said it".

Losing his job is the least of his worries now he's been chucked out of the house, leaving Helen to cosy up to Felix, the heart-throb actor with whom she's obsessed.

This is the sort of series where young girls say: "I might pop upstairs and take my knickers off just to cool down" and the middle-aged woman next door (Lynda Bellingham) salivates at the sight of a naked young man outside her French windows, which she opens to allow him admittance. And it's a series where Helen talks to the camera, confiding her worries to viewers.

I will admit (very quietly, I feel slightly ashamed) that I laughed. I also chuckled at the equally coarse Benidorm, about British holidaymakers at an all-inclusive Spanish resort.

The jokes, courtesy of Derren Little, are hardly original. They feature cliched Brit-on-holiday characters we know and love (as long as they're not on our holiday).

Thankfully, Benidorm is scheduled well after the watershed because the sight of Johnny Vegas in swimming trunks jumping into the pool is not something to which young impressionable minds should be exposed.

"Oooh, you're a big fat lad, aren't you?," observes Sheila Reid's marvellous Madge, a pensioner who's spent so long out in the sun she resembles a dried prune.

Not all the jokes are rude. "Dad, can I have a siesta?," asks a child.

"Of course you can - it's all inclusive," replies the parent.

Inside Waco was one of those documentaries bursting with information, taken here from FBI surveillance footage, secretly-recorded tapes and previously unseen video. The bits they didn't have, they reconstructed.

The programme had a wealth of information about the Branch Davidian religious community, which was ruled over by David Koresh, a man who managed to have a theological discussion with lawmen in the middle of a gun battle. Well, he did believe himself to be the second coming of Christ.

What was interesting was how much firepower the Waco community possessed. The raid that led to the siege was mounted after the authorities learnt they had enough automatic weapons and ammunition to equip a small army.

Unfortunately, the raid was ill-planned and led to the longest and bloodiest siege in modern American history.