TV Tonight
Jan25ITV tonight, about 11.30, sees the first episode of new music show "The Base"...
This is going to have live bands, playing live, as well as all the usual stuff...
Tonight's live performance will be Muse doing a cover of Nina Simone's "Feeling Good", Interview's with Usher, Nelly, Neil Hannon, the premier of the new single from Common and Macy Gary doing "Ghetto Heaven"...
Coming up later in the series will be Toploader, Shivaree, Alisha's Attic, and Orbital...
Hmm, this might be a London / Carlton region thing only, I will check...
Very strong and very chilling start to this week's five-night drama special: alien attack never felt so scary or so compelling. John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd star.
Valentine Warner is back, this time to concentrate on the delights of summer cooking. This week that includes his top five barbecue tips.
Dawn Porter talks about her mother's death from breast cancer and undergoes a mammogram herself in an emotional two-part documentary that concludes tomorrow.
Here's hoping the venerable quiz is back on the straight and narrow after the debacle about contestant eligibility last time. Jeremy Paxman is once again in the questionmaster's chair.
Giles Coren and Sue Perkins get silly in powdered wigs in a daft romp through the French Revolution as Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Russell Crowe gets a rare chance to test his comic mettle and produces a good-natured performance as a city trader who inherits a vineyard in Provence.