PREVIEW: Star Stories

If you're a fan of silly comedy, then you should like Star Stories. It's a four-part comedy series that takes a skewed look at celebrity lives, by parodying them and cheekily re-enacting their personal highs and lows (familiar to tabloid readers.)

The series is performed by a gang of familiar faces, such as Kevin Bishop (nominated for "Best Male Comedy Newcomer" at the '06 British Comedy Awards), Rhys Thomas (The Fast Show), Daisy Beaumont, Matt King (Peep Show), Trevor Lock, Alice Lowe (Garth Merenghi's Darkplace), Steve Edge (Peep Show), Thaila Zucchi (Big Brother 8's "Pauline") and Tom Basden.

This is the second series, so shame on you if you missed the first! The first run contained very amusing mickey-takes of the Beckhams, George Michael, Catherine Zeta Jones, Guy Ritchie, Sadie Frost and Jennifer Aniston. It went on to win the 2006 British Comedy Award for "Best New Comedy". You can catch-up through the show's official website here.

The new series kicks off tonight with "Gary Barlow Productions Presents... Take That: Why Our Success Was Nothing To Do With Robert Williams", and next week there is "The Church Of Scientology Presents... Being Tom Cruise: How Scientology Is In No Way Mental."

If you have even a passing interest in the celebs being lampooned, you should enjoy this. It's not particularly clever, but it's good old-fashioned piss-taking, performed with relish and often containing some hilarious visuals or dialogue that you'll be giggling at over the weekend.

Channel 4
Fridays, 9.30 pm