A Charlie Brooker special is among a raft of programming announced for BBC Two as part of a comedy line-up to be broadcast on Thursday evenings.

For the first time since his 2016 Wipe, Brooker writes and hosts Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe (w/t). The half-hour programme will take a sideways look at life in lockdown and will feature Diane Morgan and Al Campbell.

Charlie Brooker”s Antiviral Wipe is a 1 x 30′ Broke & Bones and Endemol Shine UK co-production. The executive producer is Annabel Jones; the series producer is Alison Marlow.

A series of shorts is among the newly-greenlit ‘comedy in isolation” content. In Comedians Playing With Themselves (6×15′), comics including Bob Mortimer, Kerry Godliman, Tom Allen, Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar, Tez Ilyas, Russell Kane, Sally Phillips and Mat Horne will be tasked with entertaining the nation in their own way.

From coping with stroppy teenagers to isolating as a couple and avoiding arguments, no topic will be off limits. Each of the comics will self-shoot their segments.

Comedians Playing With Themselves is from Done + Dusted Productions; the executive producer is Lisa Clark.

Matt Berry – in the personal of Michael Squeamish – will present Squeamish About… a 4 x 15 that will take a surreally comic look at various topics and subjects. Berry co-writes with Arthur Mathews for Objective Fiction. It will be produced by Hannah Mackay, with Ben Farrell as executive producer.

As part of the same announcement, BBC Two also confirmed the full-series order of Alma”s Not Normal, written by and starring Sophie Willan, following a successful broadcast pilot that was watched by more than one million people.

The 6 x 30 will include the pilot, and is produced by Expectation Entertainment. Willan, who was the inaugural winner of the BBC”s Caroline Aherne Bursary Award in 2018, will also executive produce alongside Expectation”s Nerys Evans.

Patrick Holland, controller, BBC Two, said: “BBC Two has always been the home of the most exciting comic talents and the most brilliantly conceived worlds. Sophie Willan”s Alma”s Not Normal is one of the freshest voices in years and follows on from the successful piloting of shows like Motherland and The Other One.

“During these challenging times I am delighted to bring Thursday comedy nights back for the audience.”