Sunday night saw the first Top Gear of the post-Jeremy Clarkson era. Monday night found Clarkson’s fictional soulmate - a fellow car-fixated, gaffe-prone, male menopausal presenter - trying to make amends for his own offensive blunder in Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle (Sky Atlantic).

The “fiftysomething Caucasian disc jockey from the North Norfolk area” (Steve Coogan) hadn’t punched a producer over the temperature of his supper but called a teenager a “chav” on-air, sparking what he called a “s***storm”. There were shades of Bill Grundy with the Sex Pistols as the pompous Partridge struggled to control a studio full of lippy youths.