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In these, to use the dread phrase, “unprecedented times”, it is comforting to look up old friends and wallow in their company, laughing at shared experience and sharing our hopes and fears.

So it was positive nirvana to settle on the sofa last weekend and surrender myself to Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (BBC2, Sunday, 8pm) and Harry Hill’s World of TV (BBC2, Sunday, 8.30pm).

For this first episode in the third series of Gone Fishing, long-time pals Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer were casting for salmon on the River Tweed.

Review: In these 'difficult times', it is a joy to be in the company of old TV friends like Harry, Paul and Bob