By Andrea Mullaney Mutual Friends, BBC1 Friday Comedy Connections: Dad's Army, BBC1 Friday THE PREMISE of Mutual Friends is based around a reunion.

Mutual Friends BBC1 Wales, 9pm FEAR not, while it may have seemed the Beeb were going to fob us off with repeats of My Family now Bonekickers has finished, they've spared us the misery of tiresome re-runs and brought us this brand- spanking new six-part comedy drama series.

Keeley Hawes has an almost Madonna-like way of reinventing herself. From a mousey-bobbed MI5 agent in Spooks to a time-travelling cop with an 80s perm in Ashes To Ashes, she manages to pull off any guise with style. On the set of her latest show Mutual Friends she's sporting long blonde locks.

By ROZ LAWS SINGER Toyah Willcox claims a BBC bureaucratic bungle denied her the chance to feature in a hit TV series. She says she discovered by accident that the Beeb wanted to use at least one of her hits in the 1980s-set BBC1 drama AshesTo Ashes, starring Keeley Hawes and Philip Glenister.