The Inbetweeners (C4, 10.55pm); QI (BBC1, 8.30pm); The Rob Brydon Show (BBC2,10pm);Would I Lie to You? (BBC1,10.35pm); Eight Out Of Ten Cats (C4, 10pm).

THE rude and raucous sixth formers from The Inbetweeners took the smile off Simon Cowell’s face when the series beat The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent – as well as Glee – to win the audience award at this year’s Baftas.

The public clearly enjoys this Porky’sstyle comedy that rejoices in off-colour jokes, bad language and schoolboy humour.

Will (Simon Bird) has survived (but only just) his new school. His first year in state education has been an unqualifed success, he tells us. Unqualified in the sense that he failed his exams.

Never mind, Jay’s got a new car. His mum’s actually, but he drives his mates Will, Simon and Neil to school. Will isn’t impressed by his skills behind the wheel. “Jay driving me to school made me feel like royalty. Unfortunately, the royalty was Princess Diana,” he says.

The big excitement is the school’s charity fashion show in aid of wheelchair-bound Alastair, a pupil who’s recovering from kidney failure.

He and Will, who opposes the show on the grounds it’s an “egotistical vanity fest” and a “shame popularity contest”, don’t get along – partly because Alastair asks, “Are you the kid who sh*t himself in the exam?”.

For the record, it was, but it’s a long story and belongs to the last series.

Neil, whose intelligence is summed up by that saying about short planks, wonders why Will is so opposed to the fashion show.

“If Nelson Mandela hadn’t stood up for his beliefs, where would we be now?” says Will.

Neil has the answer: “We wouldn’t have Nelson’s Column for a start.”.

Quite. Simon is exposed, rather like he was during a boating incident last series, while trying to please Carli by stepping in at the last minute for the fashion show finale.

He is required to wear a top hat and