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And so it was decreed that on the 23rd day of January after having taken Christmas off to let the punters indulge themselves in X-Factor winners and soft rock compilation albums, proper music would rise again from the ashes of the yule fireplace, shake out …

Some of us might recall, with wistful nostalgia, the ‘halcyon days of email’. In those days of yore, email was as harmless as gossiping on the phone, as novel as watching TV on an iPod, and as reliable as the Northern Line. Importantly, it was …

We’re not going to talk about the lycra, no doubt our resident TV Troll will do that for us later today… and we’re also about to have our lunch. But we do want to talk about George’s renewed legal battle with the Torygraph. According to …

The time has come. The waiting is over. Desperate Housewives (Wed 10pm C4) is back, and are we ever excited. We’ll trot out the tired old cliché about how its acid-bright façade hides a surprisingly black heart because, hell, it’s true; something is rotten in …

After initially finding the new Doctor Who to be too British (presumably because the good Doctor wasn’t riding around on a motorcyle firing off machine guns) the SciFi channel have pulled a u-turn and are set to begin broadcasting the first season (or 27th season …

Nice to see the Beeb giving time for a little slideshow fun with Michael Bond on his 80th birthday and his immortal creation Paddington who himself is heading for the big five oh. No surprise that he’s still such a firm favourite with a perfectly …

After spending last week photographing dead presidents, we thought it only decent to turn our services to former British prime ministers. The Parliament Square Collection Dead monarchs have Westminster Abbey; prime ministers have Parliament Square. There’s six of the blighters here, with a seventh – …

January is, as every primary school kid knows, named after Janus, the double-headed Roman god of gates, doors, beginnings and endings. It’s appropriate, then, that this month will see so many of both; we mourn the passing of Lost (Wed 10pm C4) and Rome, and …

…that’ll be a professional pop video, not a dimly lit home super-8 production you perverted hopefuls. Well you should email thepipettes at gmail dot com NOW. Here’s the blurb: Fancy getting your mug onto the small screen alongside Becki, Gwenno and Rose? The Pipettes are …

Well, they did vote him in last May, after all. Yes, as every Londoner knows, the eleventh and most shocking entrant into the Celebrity Big Brother house is “Gorgeous” George Galloway, cigar-chomping scourge of the right, New Labour, journalists, Christopher Hitchens, and anyone who doesn’t …