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21 December 2020 • 9:30pm Kate (Gemma Whelan) and William Shakespeare (David Mitchell) in Upstart Crow: Lockdown Christmas  Credit: Gary Moyes David Mitchell has made one truly great contribution to Christmas television. It is an episode of Peep Show in which his character, Mark, hosts a Christmas family lunch so jaw-clenchingly awful that the episode is called Seasonal Beatings. The afternoon ends with him pouring the contents of his plate, gravy and all, into a paper shredder. Mitchell is ...

One of the most crowded Omaha City Council races so far is for the seat that represents northeast Omaha. At least seven people are pursuing campaigns to challenge incumbent Councilman Ben Gray to represent District 2, which stretches from Forest Lawn Cemetery into north downtown and includes Florence, Eppley Airfield and Creighton University. Gray, a Democrat on the officially nonpartisan council, was elected to his seat in 2009 and has twice won reelection. He is one of five sitting council me...

Geraldine is back! The Vicar of Dibley is one of the gems today... Geraldine gives her final lockdown sermon in the Vicar of Dibley, Will and Kate are back in Upstart Crow, and eight celebrities cook up a storm on Celebrity Masterchef. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss tonight.  Our hand-selected recommendations for what’s on TV tonight include three TV shows, a film, live sport and the latest trending need-to-binge-on-now box set  Keep up to date with the latest soap spoiler storyl...

9pm, Sky Comedy The comedic heavyweights are out in full force for this series starring John C Reilly, Fred Armisen and Tim Heidecker as three astronauts preparing for their first mission to space from the confines of a moon-base simulator in the Arizona desert. In tonight’s opener, disaster strikes as the trio run out of water. AK 9pm, Sky Documentaries “I’ve no excuse, this was for self-glory,” Mark David Chapman recently told the Parole Board, 40 years after murdering John Lennon. F...

Festive Five TV Highlights for Monday Updated / Monday, 21 Dec 2020 16:57 TV Editor Todays TV tips include an inspirational animated film called Sol, new US comedy Moonbase, some Christmas cooking tips from Neven Maguire, and Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon . . . Sol, 6.30pm, TG4 Here’s an inspiring film about a little boy’s journey through grief. The animated short aims to bring light and comfort to families with young children as the darkest year in modern times draws to a ...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Graham Norton shares emotional goodbye as he departs Radio 2 show "It has been a privilege to be part of your Saturday mornings." 19/12/2020 Graham Norton presented his last Radio 2 show today (November 19), and he got very emotional while saying his goodbyes. The long-time host of the Saturday morning show is heading over to Virgin Radio UK to present a weekend show over there. Graham said the 10 years...

TV guide: 44 of the best shows to watch this week From carols to cooking, children’s animation, documentaries and streaming dramas Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 06:00 Sunday, TG4, 9.30pm A concert of traditional music from St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church in the heart of Galway city, presented by Cormac Begley. During the 1990’s, the duet Begley and Steve Cooney reached national acclaim and were regarded as one of the foremost performers of Irish music. Cooney pioneered a new approach to traditional...

Whats on TV: Monday, December 21 to Sunday, December 27 Whats on TV: Monday, December 21 to Sunday, December 27 By Craig Mathieson and Ben Pobjie December 19, 2020 — 5.30pm Normal text size ABC, 8.30pm Perhaps the most striking episode yet of this stellar series that showcases the spectacular landscapes and wildlife of the continent we call home.Aaron Pedersen is an amiable host, but the stars here are the stunning native fauna captured by the ABC over decades of nature documentary filmmaking...

Bad sex writing prize pulls out this year Now we will never know this year’s contenders, or indeed the crown prince, of strangely worded sexual encounters between fictional characters. December 19, 2020 / 07:17 AM IST One of the more fatal casualties of this year is the annual negative sex report in literature. The Bad Sex in Fiction Award stands cancelled, shutting down all puerile shenanigans in bedrooms across books. Awkward bungling between bodies that tickle rather than turn on, penn...

World War Two spy drama revealing in all the wrong ways World War Two spy drama revealing in all the wrong ways Normal text size Rated M, 124 minutes There’s surely a film to be made about the exploits of Virginia Hall, whose wartime sobriquet was "the limping lady”. Born in Baltimore, the well-educated Hall travelled in the 1930s to Europe where a decade later she became an Allied spy, rescuing British airmen stranded in occupied France and helping to organise the Resistance – all this d...