Returning: Miranda

Season Three of Miranda returns to ABC1 this Sunday night, following Call the Midwife which also features Miranda Hart.

UK comedienne Miranda Hart returns for her third series. It doesn’t matter what Miranda attempts in life, whether it is dating or simply dealing with her overbearing mother, she always seems to fall flat, quite literally.

Miranda (Miranda Hart) is 6 feet 1 inch (1.85m) tall and gets called ‘Sir’ once too often. She has never fitted in with her old boarding school friends, Tilly (Sally Phillips) and Fanny (Katy Wix), and finds social situations awkward, especially around men.

She is a constant disappointment to her mother Penny (Patricia Hodge), who is desperate for her to get a proper job and a husband. Although Miranda owns and lives above her own joke shop, she lacks any real capacity for business, so it is managed by her childhood friend Stevie Sutton (Sarah Hadland).

The restaurant next door is run by Clive (James Holmes), who also works as a waiter. He has employed a chef – Gary Preston (Tom Ellis), a university friend whom Miranda fancies.

This week Penny is threatening to cancel Miranda’s Christmas if she doesn’t sort her life out. Amongst other things, she forces her daughter on a detox.

Stevie has a new executive job and Miranda tries to follow her in to an office job but it all proves too much. Meanwhile, are Gary and Miranda able to just be friends?

9:30pm Sunday, 31 March ABC1.