By STEVE HENDRY LOSING IT WEDNESDAY, ITV, 9PM Martin Clunes plays a harassed family man who is diagnosed with testicular cancer in this new drama. And while he knows all too well the misery cancer can bring, he insists the one-off show is not all doom and gloom.

By Roz Laws HE was a big hit as a doctor, but now Martin Clunes is back in hospital - as a patient. The Doc Martin star is the lead in the one-off drama Losing It (ITV1, Wednesday). He plays advertising executive Phil MacNaughton who discovers he has testicular cancer.

By STEVE PRATT Martin Clunes and Peter Davison have found another two authority figures who can still manage to make us laugh.