TV review: The Sarah Millican TV Programme

Some of the filth that comes out of her mouth is not something you'd want to listen to while watching with your gran.

She has something of Mrs Merton about her, the comic creation of Caroline Aherne that allows a smiling charm to deliver brutally searing questions that punctures the most inflated of celebrity egos.

Stand-up comic Millican, who hails from the North East, returned to our TV screens last night for a new series of The Sarah Millican TV Programme on BBC2.

Half an hour of her folksy, chummy charm that lulls victims into false sense of security before delivery a metaphorical kick to those most tenderest of parts. Send the kids to bed, they're too young to hear what she's about to say in her trademark high pitched voice.

Millican, who won Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, opened the show with several jokes about hyperactive pensioners and "sexy" Nigella Lawson's cooking with plums.

The comic warms the audience up so they can just sit back and enjoy the ride.

Her first guest was Strictly Come Dancing's venomous judge Craig Revel Horwood – someone who can dish up an insult or two. One of Millican's first questions was who the overly tanned Revel Horwood thought was the worst dancer on Strictly. TV presenter and motoring expert, Quentin Willson, was his answer.

Revel Horwood reverted to cruel judge mode when he said 2010 contestant Anne Widdecombe "did manage to polish the floor" when she used to take to the dancefloor.

The best guest of the night by far was Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm. A few of Millican's questions seemed to make the Scouse singer wriggle uncomfortably on her chair, especially when she was asked something we'd all like to know – what it is like when bandmate Posh Spice aka Victoria Beckham cracks a smile.

Chisholm smiled awkwardly and said: "You must have seen her smiling. The thing is with Victoria, if you are with her in private, she's so funny and always laughing and joking and smiling."

Millican didn't look convinced and neither was I.

Sticking with the Spice Girls, who recently reunited to perform at the London 2012 Olympic closing ceremony, the 37-year-old wanted to know who bandmate Chisholm would turn away from auditions if the band were forming today.

Sporty Spice wouldn't be drawn on which member she'd get rid of by playing it safe and saying: "We all had different strengths and tried to play to that.

"There were some great singers in the band, everyone can sing but some were stronger than others and some were better dancers than others."

Although she did later drop Geri Halliwell's name into the mix.

Four Casualty cast members, Tony Marshall, Suzanne Packer, Charles Dale and Azuka Oforka, joined Millican for a bit of role play at the end and she had a bit of fun trying to resuscitate a patient who was brought in on a hospital bed.

Millican's cheeky, at times cringeworthy humour is something TV viewers don't seem to be growing tired of. Long may it continue I say.

Laura Blyth