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COMEDY: Collared again
Bafta-award winning comedian Harry Hill returns to cast his unique gaze over the week's televisual output.
So who will follow in the footsteps of Born Survivor: Bear Grylls and American Inventor as TV Burp cult classics? As the show is so up-to-date, there's no way of telling exactly what will be featured this evening, but it's a fair bet that all the major soaps will be there, along with reality shows, Strictly Come Dancing, The X Factor and whichever quirky telly gems catch Hill's eagle eye. .. (Click to continue reading)
Harry Hill's TV Burp showing on ITV1 at 6:55pm
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We are not alone...
Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning classic "alien encounter" epic, sees Richard Dreyfuss and Teri Garr, two ordinary American citizens, caught up in a secret American investigation into UFO contacts with Earth, headed by François Truffaut, culminating in the still-astonishing first contact between humans and beings from another galaxy. (Click to continue reading)
Close Encounters of The Third Kind showing on Watch at 5:20pm
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Meeting royalty
The multi-Emmy award-winning mini-series - exploring American history and focusing on one of its great founding fathers, John Adams - continues. Tonight Adams learns of the British surrender to Washington at Yorktown, becomes the nation's first minister to Britain and has a dramatic meeting with King George III. (Click to continue reading)
John Adams showing on more4 at 5:30pm
Can Merlin defeat the Griffin?
Merlin narrowly escapes with his life when he is attacked by a mysterious and terrifying creature with the body of a lion and the head of an eagle, as the drama continues. But a young stranger - Lancelot - comes to his rescue. (Click to continue reading)
Merlin showing on BBC 1 at 5:55pm
Werewolves on the prowl...
The second series of David Tennant and Billie Piper Doctor Who adventures continues. The Doctor and Rose travel back to the year 1879. An encounter in the Scottish Highlands with Queen Victoria and a band of warrior monks reveals a deadly trap, dating back centuries. Can the local legends of a werewolf really be true? (Click to continue reading)
Doctor Who showing on Watch at 8:00pm
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Victorian values
Documentary telling the story of how an unassuming little girl rose to be Queen Victoria, the most powerful woman in the world. Presented by Dr Kate Williams, the programme shows the hidden story behind the Queen who brought us into the modern age - and how she saved the very institution of monarchy itself. (Click to continue reading)
Timewatch showing on BBC 2 at 8:10pm
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Who's the boss?
Smart comedy drama, starring Dennis Quaid, who plays a 51-year-old advertising man who suddenly gets a new boss (Topher Grace) who is half his age and who starts dating his daughter (Scarlett Johansson). (Click to continue reading)
In Good Company showing on Channel 4 at 10:50pm
