Hot topics in television include the popularity of sitcoms, overlapping ITV regions and whether repeat programmes are good or bad.

It's one of the hardest jobs in the world to make people laugh.' So says Alan Simpson, the co-creator of seminal sitcoms Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son, in the opening moments of this episode of Look Here, LWT's monthly programme about the television industry. The segment about the enduring popularity of the television sitcom features interviews with an impressive line-up of comedy writers, including Barry Took, David Croft and Jimmy Perry, as well as the academic Richard Hoggart, dissecting what makes a situation funny on British television.

A report from Tunbridge Wells follows, where the local broadcast transmitter allowed residents to tune into ITV broadcasts from either the London area or the south and southeast region (which had just been taken over by the new ITV franchise company TVS). It's a complicated situation reflecting the particular infrastructure of the ITV network in the early 1980s, which Look Here manages to condense and make sense of. It also features fun vox pox from Tunbridge Wellians pondering which version of ITV they prefer.

Finally, as in every episode of Look Here, host John Pardoe reads some of the correspondence sent from viewers, including complaints about a last minute documentary about Peter Sutcliffe (who had just been arrested) replacing a rerun of The Professionals in the schedules.

This programme looking at aspects of television, with features on situation
comedy and its growth and on the "border battles" involving transmitter siting
between ITV areas.