UTOPIA (ABC, Wednesday) is a delightfully satiric take on public servants.
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This lot have been employed in the newly formed Nation Building Authority to implement the government's promise to provide infrastructure for the future.
An early snag was promising a community garden in an urban development – actually it was a just an added thought to a brochure, but it was taken up enthusiastically by talk-back radio and the media generally.
The only problem was that in the plan there was absolutely no way a community garden would fit in, apart from a stretch of stony and probably polluted ground well away from any dwellings.
However, in the solution were so many environmental inquiries and soil tests that everyone would forget about the garden.
Rob Sitch heads up the hilarious team at NBA and if you liked The Hollowmen, Utopia's your show.
AMUSING as it is, Utopia is not really laugh-out-loud humour.
For that you'll have to switch to SBS for Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Monday).
This cop show is really very, very funny – slapstick in many cases, but a real winner!
In the squad are detectives Jake (Andy Samberg), over-confident and very much out there; Amy (Melissa Fumero) constantly competing against Jake to see who wins the most cases; Charles (Joe Lo Truglio) awkward, clumsy but sweet and hopelessly smitten with Rose Diaz, who is frighteningly sure of herself; and the squad leader Terry.
In charge is New York's first cop who came out as gay, Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher).
This is his first command and he wants to impress.
The other main character is Gina Linetti, the administrator.
You soon learn all about these characters and you'll learn to love them.
REALITY Check on the ABC on Wednesday nights has Tom Ballard hosting a panel who are involved in producing or appearing in reality shows.
What The Gruen Transfer did for advertising, Reality Check hopes to do for reality shows.
It doesn't matter if you usually shun reality, you'll still be entertained with clips from extraordinary overseas reality shows and the panel is asked to guess which of three improbable shows was actually made and put to air.
