So is Miles Jupp better than Sandi Toksvig as host of The News Quiz? It’s an unfair question and too early to say after one episode anyway. But the big cheer at the start certainly sounded like a vote of confidence.

For this well-established series it was quickly business as usual, kicking off with the usual cuttings from local papers and a nice bit of smut about a couple performing a sex act on local train in Essex.