Television
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Intruders reaches the end of the road. Possibly. The Strictly Come Dancing celebrities twirl into the waltz-a-thon, the jungle monarch is crowned and the Foo Fighters touch down in Seattle. All this, plus high stakes in the snooker final and plenty of Rugby Union action
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‘“Diligence and dedication is what I live from day to day,” he says, the slow motion playing havoc with his grammar’
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Catherine Bennett: ‘I can anticipate the regrets that might one day afflict a revered news personality when he reflects on the hysterical acclaim lavished on younger, big-boobed but less intellectually incisive entertainers from the ghastly world of “reality” TV’
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TV and radio catch up guide Catch-up TV guide: The Walking Dead, Marco Polo, Raw Meat Radio and more
From zombies to a radio legend, the best streams and downloads to catch up on this week -
Filipa Jodelka's other side The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies, a sensitive portrayal of a media witch-hunt
Never judge a book by its cover? That’ll be the day, as shown in this traumatising new TV drama about the aftermath of the Joanna Yeates murder
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It’s nearly a decade since Steve Brookstein became the first winner of The X Factor – not that you’d remember. His new memoir details the miseries of fleeting reality TV fame, and the Cowell-Clifford conspiracy that he believes killed his career
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Graeme Virtue: The Batman prequel explores the city’s vast ecosystem of corruption, and while it’s still finding its feet, it has plenty of potential to grow
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BBC presenter and Richard Hammond confirm controversial Argentinian footage will be shown in Christmas special
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Media Monkey: The Ukip leader will be joining the actor and comedian, along with MP Mary Creagh on the BBC programme
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Media Monkey: London’s most phallic building was the obvious choice to screen its new drama series by Russell T Davies
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The BBC/HBO adaptation of JK Rowling’s first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, will air next year. Here are the latest pictures of some central characters in the three-part drama
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Lucy Mangan: Dr Sam Willis takes a tour of amazing feats of construction in an age when, if you weren’t crenellated, you weren’t anybody
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A visit to Planet Ice, off into the wild with Ben Fogle and Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD decipher alien scribblings. Plus: a portrait of Von Karajan, The Story of Funk and the adventures of a corporate Robin Hood in House Of Lies
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The Fall: episode by episode The Fall recap: season two, episode four – the net is closing on Spector
Vicky Frost: We’re four episodes in and though this was less frustrating than last week, The Fall is still operating on an undemanding level -
George Osborne tells John Humphrys on Radio 4’s Today that BBC reports are rewind of 2010 cutbacks coverage that wrongly predicted return to ‘George Orwell’ world
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With the keynote out of the way, there was much talk of Miranda Hart’s reinvention of The Generation Game
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Guide Daily The day with the Vengaboys' return and Billy Eichner's Taylor Swift tribute - as it happened
Plus further insight into James Bay’s hat, Dr Quinn goes hardcore, bad Christmas songs, mashups galore and Lana del Rey does a thing. Vids, tunes, gifs, trailers, pics and nonsense from now until glorious pubtime. Tweet us @guideguardian and leave your comments below in the section marked ‘comments’ -
NBC might be hoping to suck in the hate-watchers, but there’s an outside chance the follow up to last year’s panned Sound Of Music Live! might actually be good
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Last week we brought you our 10 best pirates. Here, we present your thoughts on which swashbucklers should have made the list…
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Mark Lawson: The decade that gave us staples of our current schedules – the Two Ronnies, Dad’s Army, Morecambe & Wise – is also responsible for the television we’ll never be able to watch again
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David Renshaw: Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones as bickering friends Andy and Lance are a delightful double-act in this wistful, subtle comedy
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The actor and TableTop host on geek culture, not being a dick on the internet, and why gaming needs to stop treating women as an anomaly
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Christopher Beanland: The Day Today creator will debut a new radio sketch on Sunday. It’s welcome news: from On the Hour to Blue Jam, radio is the medium that made him
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Daily Mirror leads the Fleet Street field in its traditional annual festive funk over the Christmas TV schedules
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News: The actors take roles in Codes of Conduct, about a black man rising through high society New York, which Oscar winner will co-write and produce
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Ukip leader suffers a spillage while enjoying a drink or two with Steph and Dom for Channel 4 show
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Trailer: The festive episode of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian series arrives on 16 December. Here’s a first look, with Rafe Spall and Oona Chaplin joining the Mad Men star in seasonal hell
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Review Confessions of a Secretary – review: a brilliantly nosy look at the era of the office sex-pest
Lucy Mangan: It was the 60s, and for secretaries there were plenty of jobs, plenty of perks – and plenty of gropers -
The Met’s in a muddle in Babylon, Gibson starts to turn the tables on Spector in The Fall and there are real-life storms to cope with in The Railway: First Great Western. Pus feline and canine business with A Very Grumpy Cat and Puppy Love and the sturdy Castles – Britain’s Fortified History
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Programming includes last episode of Miranda and Citizen Khan, Mrs Brown’s Boys, Top Gear and Strictly festive specials
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After last week’s hot tubs v tractors country showdown, it was back to pounding the city streets for our final eight, with the ever-popular hunt-the-elusive-product round
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Rebecca Nicholson: Doctor Who Christmas special or the new Marco Polo series on Netflix? This year’s seasonal offerings on terrestrial telly are so uninspiring that the streaming sites win hands down
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Ahead of his new show To Be Free, Simon Amstell joined us in a live webchat to share his wisdom. Here’s what he’s learned over the years
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Costume designer Michele Clapton discussed the HBO show’s sartorial subtleties such as Jaime Lannister’s golden hand and whether the Greyjoys stink of fish oil
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More cake with your tea, vicar? We put Gogglebox vicar Kate Bottley and her husband, Graham, up against a full hamper of shop-bought festive cakes
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