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The top 20 TV programmes for the festive season

Gerard Gilbert: What we view and how we view it has undergone a transformation.

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All the President's MythBusters

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

It's the TV show that's encouraging people to think about physics, history and things that go boom. Plus, says Nick Harding, Barack Obama is a big fan

Dirk Gently: Appliance of science is the stuff of fantasy

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Can a TV drama with a detective who uses quantum mechanics to solve cases be a success? Gerard Gilbert investigates

The Jesus story with a hint of EastEnders

Monday, 13 December 2010

Tony Jordan's latest BBC drama proves you don't have to be a believer to make a good Nativity film, says Gerard Gilbert

In from the cold: Alan Bleasdale on his return to television after a decade in the wilderness

Sunday, 12 December 2010

He proved himself the finest TV writer of his generation. So why has it taken more than a decade for Liverpool's finest, Alan Bleasdale, to make his way back to our screens?

Secret winner of The X Factor

Sunday, 12 December 2010

Andrew Johnson: Music producer and songwriter Steve Mac is a vital part of Simon Cowell's empire.

Fifty things you didn't know about Coronation Street

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Brian Viner: 39 births, 114 deaths – life in Weatherfield is never dull.

Queen of the underworld: Mary Beard is bringing the ancient city of Pompeii to life in a BBC documentary

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Around lunchtime on 24 August AD79, the inhabitants of Pompeii on the Bay of Naples saw an astonishing sight: a column of smoke bursting into the sky from Vesuvius, the huge volcanic mountain that looms over the bay. According to an eyewitness, Pliny the Younger, writing 20 years after the event, the cloud reached nine miles in height (it resembled a fir tree, he said) and dropped burning ash upon the town.

Mr Happy goes native: Dom Joly reveals what he learnt in the ‘I'm A Celebrity’ jungle

Thursday, 9 December 2010

For 20 days, Dom Joly withstood the tarantulas and tantrums of 'I'm a Celebrity', so what did he learn?

The Week In Radio: A salute to the BBC – where every word counts

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Jim Naughtie's Atonement moment concerning the Culture Minister has titillated the Twittersphere all week. I saw him that evening and commented that the slip-up would probably dog him for the next three months. "The rest of my life, more like," he replied gloomily.