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TV review: Maestro at the Opera

Where has all the laughter disappeared to in the BBC’s upper-class X Factor? One of the TV comedy highlights of 2008 was Peter Snow, who states he adores classical music, attempting to conduct an orchestra. With a wild look in his eye and a maniacal grimace, he waved his arms about all over the place, beating two, then three, then maybe five. He demonstrated no talent or understanding for Prokofiev, whose Dance of the Knights he left not just dead but horrifically dismembered. It was a joy.

Titanic with Len Goodman; Twenty Twelve – review

Strictly’s Len Goodman has an unlikely link to the Titanic, writes Sam Wollaston There’s an awful lot of Titanic around in the next couple of weeks. Well, it was a huge ship, a larger disaster, and this is a huge anniversary. Weirdest of all offerings, surely, is this one: Titanic with Len Goodman (BBC1). What is this, Strictly Come Drowning? Ah, but there is something I did not know about the Strictly judge: he used to be a welder at shipbuilders Harland and Wolff. Not actually in Belfast where Titanic was built, but at the docks in London.

From the archive, 28 February 1985: Doctor Who fans upset as BBC postpones new series

Originally published in the Guardian on 28 February 1985 The controller of BBC 1, Mr Michael Grade, may well be longing by this morning to step into the Tardis and whisk himself beyond the range of the outcry stirred up by his decision yesterday to postpone the next series of Dr Who. Work on the new series, originally scheduled for January next year and starring Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant, was due to begin in a month’s time. But Mr Grade has decided that the money would be better spent on other drama projects and that the Doctor must be ...

BBC Calls the Midwife for a second series

Hit Sunday night drama starring Jenny Agutter and Miranda Hart gets recommissioned after just two episodes The BBC has commissioned a second series of hit Sunday night drama Call the Midwife, which stars Jenny Agutter, Miranda Hart and Pam Ferris, after airing just two episodes. BBC1′s six-part drama, which grew its audience by 600,000 to average 8.6 million for its second installment on Sunday night, is based on the late Jennifer Worth’s trilogy of memoirs about life and midwifery in London’s East End in the 1950s.

Room 101 – review

Room 101 is not quite ready to be consigned to Room 101 yet, writes Sam Wollaston The broadcaster Danny Baker is like a suicide bomber. How so? Because one of the things he tries to send to Room 101 (BBC2) is “panel shows with bottom-of-the-bill comedians where halfway witted people are pretending to find things funny”. Whoa! Room 101 in other words, surely? The show has only just come back after a four-year sabbatical, and he is trying to do for it, from the inside. It’s like he is ripped off his coat, and there it all is, strapped on and ...

TV matters: festive fixtures

Jools’s Annual Hootenanny is the nearest thing we have this day to an annual favourite such as Morecambe & Wise Allowing for changes of faces and shows, the British TV Christmas remains remarkably unchanged from the 1960s. Indeed, reruns of Morecambe & Wise achieve the peculiar cryogenic spectacle of the duo still dominating the festive schedules, even though they last performed together 27 years ago. However, the TV new year is as directionless as a midnight drunk stumbling home. Confident and consistent about what 25 December should see, executives have constantly revised their vision of 31 December.

Science Weekly podcast: Bruce Hood has Christmas lectures on the brain

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a great festive season tradition dating back to 1825, with past lecturers including David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins and Dame Nancy Rothwell. They’re currently broadcast on BBC Four tv and are tailored for family viewing. This year’s lectures, “Meet the Brain”, will be delivered by Prof Bruce Hood of the University of Bristol, who plans to entertain and educate his audience with demonstrations of the structure of the brain, how it encodes information about the world and determines our behaviour, and how the developing brain transforms us into the social animals that we become as ...

Mark Lawson – what TV to watch in 2012

From Julian Fellowes’ Titanic to US import Homeland and a new Sherlock in January, 2012 has treats in store The TV hits of any year are often unexpected (The Choir, The Great British Bake Off) but in Donald Rumsfeld’s category of what we know we know about, I’m most looking forward to a series the former American defence secretary would not like. Homeland, imported by Channel 4 from the US cable network Showtime, has Claire Danes as an intelligence officer investigating a rumour that a marine (Damian Lewis) is an al-Qaida double agent.

Natasha Kaplinsky takes ITV news anchor role

Former BBC and Channel 5 newsreader lands interim role on London Tonight and national network news programmes Natasha Kaplinsky, the former BBC and Channel 5 newsreader, is to take an interim role at ITV presenting London Tonight and national network news programmes. Kaplinsky, who became the highest-paid newsreader in Britain when she signed a deal in 2007 to defect from the BBC to Channel 5 on a reported deal of £1m a year, left the Richard Desmond-owned broadcaster at the end of last year.

EastEnders’ Pat to leave Albert Square

Actor Pam St Clement states quitting BBC1 soap after more than 25 years will be like a ‘bereavement’ EastEnders veteran Pam St Clement is to bow out of Albert Square, more than a quarter of a century after making her debut as no-nonsense Pat. The actor, 69, one of the longest-serving stars of the show, will leave Walford later this year. St Clement stated she had other things she wanted to do but stated leaving the soap would be like a “bereavement”. During her colourful years in the show, Pat remarried several times, has gone to prison and enjoyed affairs ...