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TV Review: Can You Trust Your Doctor?Lynda Moyo has a near death experience because of a Dispatches documentary
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X Factor 2011 ReviewSimon Binns dissects Boot Camp, chews it up and spits it back out again

TV Review: Poor Kids (BBC1)Angie Sammons on an essential, important film shown way too late to have the impact it should

The Apprentice TV reviewLynda Moyo welcomes back Lord Sugar and a new bunch of braggers

Being Erica interviewBeccy Kennedy talks to Michael Riley who plays Dr Tom about Being Erica and just being

United, the BBC2 drama reviewedSimon Binns, a well-crafted drama, and his mam getting asked out by Georgie-boy

Waking the Dead, TV reviewJonathan Schofield will miss Trevor Eve’s tortured Boyd

Jersey Shore ReviewCasey Gillespie apologises on behalf of America for their latest export, Jersey Shore

Take part in a BBC experiment‘Musical Moods’ launched at National Science & Engineering Week

Take Me Out TV reviewThe Grouch gets Saturday night fever and wants to be put out of his misery

MoviePegI just can't get enough of...MoviePeg – the super simple stand for iPhone 3, iPhone 4 and iPad

Great British Hairdresser TV reviewLynda Moyo cringes at hairstyles made out squirrels and mountains made out of mole hills on E4

Jamie’s Dream School (C4); Rich, Famous And In The Slums (BBC1)

Jamie’s Dream School (C4); Rich, Famous And In The Slums…Gerry Corner watches two celebrity master-classes in profile-building

TV: Big Fat Gyspy WeddingsSimon Binns is in shock – at the state of Channel 4

EastEnders cot death debateLynda Moyo thinks the ‘distressed’ and ‘appalled’ should get off their soap box

Ricky Whittle interviewedGeorgina Hague interviews the dancing man and then swoons (no honestly)

Strictly Widdecombe DancingHost of stars given large boost by Strictly's controversial Ann Widdecombe

X Factor latest: Milk Curdle winsSleuth watches the X Factor Final with the family

Strictly Come Dancing: Tina O’Brien interviewGeorgina Hague catches up with Strictly Come Dance’s Tina O’Brien ahead of the live tour

The One to Watch: Rebecca FergusonSimon Cowell says our neighbour, Liverpool, has found a new pop star, but what else...?

TV REVIEW: Lennon Naked/BBC 4 Wednesday 22 JuneEven Mitch Poole is convinced by Christopher Eccleston in the latest Beatles bio

The TV Column (2 Feb)Mo Mowlam, Julie Walters, Alex Reid and the final ever word on CBB, all mentioned here by Gerry Corner

Britian's got TalentNicola Mostyn finally realises there’s nowhere to hide

Best: His mothers sonNicola Mostyn on a sad story where it’s the alcohol that tackles and eventually triumphs

The Apprentice

Films: The Road (15)Jonathan Schofield on a fabulous tale of bleakness, compassion, horror and hope

The TV Column (Jan 8)David Tennant, Stephen Baldwin and c-listers galore.... all on the box in the last week and mentioned here by Angie Sammons

The TV ColumnDavid Tennant, Stephen Baldwin and c-listers galore.... all on the box in the last week and mentioned here by Angie Sammons

Sherlock HolmesRachel Winterbottom deduces that Guy Ritchie has probably never read anything by Arthur Conan Doyle

The BoxIt's no <i>Donnie Darko</i> says Rachel Winterbottom on the latest film by Richard Kelly

Paranormal Activity (18)Mike Chapple hangs around with the horror nerds at a special preview of 'the scariest film you'll ever see'. Well they would say that, wouldn't they?

The TV Column (23 Nov)Justin Lee Collins, Terry Wogan, Jedward and Katie Price are voted in and out by Gerry Corner

Jennifer’s BodyRachel Winterbottom watches a man-munching Megan Fox in the latest film from Juno writer Diablo Cody

The TV Column (Nov 3, 2009)Raymond Blanc, Gordon Ramsay, playing with knives and disgusting food, all mentioned here by Angie Sammons

Manchester's TV historyFree exhibition at Urbis looks at 50 years of telly-making in the city

Are you Svengali?The cult internet comedy and some questions for Candy McCulloch who stars in the latest epidode

The TV ColumnGraham Norton, Jonathan Ross, Grayson Perry, Katie Price, Cheryl Cole, John and Edward and Jo Brand. All mentioned here, by Angie Sammons

Zombieland reviewRachel Winterbottom devours this comedy-horror starring Woody Harrelson

AdventurelandSummer jobs and summer love: Rachel Winterbottom rates this nostalgic film about post-university blues

District 9 (15)Rachel Winterbottom ingests some alien juice and feels better for it

Film review: Funny PeopleApatow's terminal illness comedy gets Rachel Winterbottom laughing in the face of adversity

Inglourious Basterds reviewRachel Winterbottom watches Tarantino's long-awaited Nazi war film

GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra reviewRachel Winterbottom thinks Hasbro are toying with disaster

Films: Coco Before ChanelSarah Tierney thinks Audrey Tautou was tailor-made for this one

TV ColumnGerry Corner watches Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, All the Queen's Horses, Airline and The Street (in reverse order)

The TV ColumnGerry Corner watches Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, All the Queen's Horses, Airline and The Street (in reverse order)

Film review: BrünoRachel Winterbottom on a new genre in cinema: horr-edy

Films: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceThe latest, sometimes baffling Hogwarts episode fails to cast a spell on Phil Key

Public Enemies (15)Is Johnny Depp a fop or a flop? Lew Baxter decides

Transformers: Revenge of the FallenRachel Winterbottom isn't blown away by all those explosions

Terminator Salvation reviewRachel Winterbottom can feel Christian Bale's bruises as if they were her own

Films: Terminator Salvation (12a)Lew Baxter thinks we're all doomed after watching the saviour of the human race

Films: Looking for Eric (15)Sarah Tierney says 'oui' to Loach and Cantona's film about the power of saying 'NON!'

TV: Soaps round-upNicola Mostyn on Mr Ugly Mug, mini-skirts to the waist, mad redheads and bigamy....

Dirty TV secretsLynda Moyo asks, what do you watch when you're 'taking a break' from intelligent TV? We uncover some frightfully trashy TV habits in the Confidential office: tell us yours...

Dirty TV secretsLynda Moyo asks what do you watch when you're 'taking a break' from intelligent TV?

Angels and DemonsRachel Winterbottom thinks there's a decent thriller hiding somewhere in here

TV Review: Coronation Street (ITV1)Andrew Sachs makes a high profile return to TV on the cobbles of Weatherfield. Gerry Corner's verdict?

Boy Meets GirlNicola Mostyn wonders if the gender gap is all that funny

Films: Star Trek (2009)Lew Baxter is beamed up and boldly going into JJ Abrams' brave new world

Films: Cheri (15)Sarah Tierney finds that Bill Kenwright has moved as far away from Goodison as is possible - to Belle Époque Paris

TV: The ApprenticeNicola Mostyn thinks the party just got started with the Sugar man

Film review: X-Men Origins: WolverineRachel Winterbottom would like hear something she didn't already know

Best: His Mother’s SonNicola Mostyn on a sad story where it’s the alcohol that tackles and eventually triumphs

TV review: Doing a Reggie PerrinGerry Corner on the resurrection of a sitcom which didn't get where it is today without a Man Behaving Badly

Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1)Nicola Mostyn finally realises there’s nowhere to hide

TV review: Red Dwarf: Back to EarthShould Craig Charles and co have been left to spin the galaxies in peace? Nicola Mostyn will be back for more

Heston's FeastsNicola Mostyn no longer wonders what the Romans did for us

Lesbian Vampire KillersRachel Winterbottom on a film idea that should have stayed dead

The Colour of MoneyNicola Mostyn on a simply stressful game show

TV: Comic ReliefIs it all about staying in to watch the celebrity gang weep buckets? Nicola Mostyn thinks so

Films: Watchmen (18)Rachel Winterbottom on a gang of superheroes who don't quite cut it

Wired upIts box set was one of 2008's biggest Xmas sellers and it has been called the best TV show that no one has seen. Now all 60 hours of The Wire are to be shown on BBC2. Paddy Hoey explains why this isn't just another cop show