There are two shows this week: first, a seaside face-off between rising stars Angela Barnes and Matt Richardson, then a clash of the titans with terse Welsh comic Lloyd Langford and Yorkshireman Tom Wrigglesworth.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is faced with a sensitive seaside case that concerns a noted novelist found hanging from a lighthouse on exclusive Combe Island, a place owned by a trust to which high-powered people come to unwind.
The hiking paths skirt the town, which is worth visiting for the two open villas that grip its seaside cliff face with their labyrinthine gardens.
While other seaside communities face flooding, all of downtown Highlands is in a V Zone, which designates the most flood-prone areas on the preliminary flood-elevation maps being prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
As this paper demonstrates, many seaside towns face problems associated with both rural and urban areas and therefore a more place-based approach to geographical studies of poverty and exclusion is needed.
That is what the McRoberts family, of Seaside, Calif., faced.
Going somewhere, going nowhere, Janet Waters' series of photographs taken on local bus routes capture the hope and despair of a seaside town facing the uncertainties of the economic crash.
This latest one is based around a small seaside village facing imminent nuclear attack, but that's really just a jumping-off point for the duo's latest collection of grotesques, all delivered with a cut-through charisma that puts other sketch acts to shame.
Nearby towns like Seaside and Manzanita face similar risks, as do Indian tribes on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.
Helen Sear is here representing Wales with a collection of works that couldn't be further from Lucas's in-yer-face seaside humour.
Let's face it, some seaside fish and chip shops are better than others.
