Back so soon? It sure makes a change from last time, when C4 viewers waited for months on end until the new run finished on E4. Now this ninth series comes only 24 hours after its E4 premiere - a puzzling change of tack. Still, fans won't complain to see last season's cliffhanger resolved a mere month after we left it. As you recall, Rachel finally gave birth to baby Emma, sired by Ross, who was her husband but now isn't (do keep up) and as we left the gang, Joey was on his knees by her bedside brandishing what looked like an engagement ring. Now the farce gets fully into gear. Rachel accepts the ring, leaving Joey aghast. He was only retrieving the band from the floor because Ross had dropped it after it was pressed onto him by his grandmother, hopeful of a reconciliation he hadn't exactly envisaged yet. And then Phoebe appears, with the wrong end of the schtick entirely. It's classic stuff, deftly handled, but Ross's dad Elliot Gould still steals the show when he catches Chandler and daughter Monica at it in a cupboard trying to make a child of their own.