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They're breaking the ice and limbs on Dancing ON Ice

IT’S all change on and off the ice as the skating show returns.Read

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Coronation Street Christmas spoilers

MOST of the festive action usually takes place in Albert Square, the traditional location for Christmas murders, family rows and disasters.Read

YOU would think that Masood would have quite enough on his plate delivering everyone’s Christmas cards and gifts on time, but the postman also sets himself a tough challenge – to rescue his ex-wife Zainab from the evil clutches of Yusef.Read

Emmerdale Christmas spoilers

HCHRISTMAS tends to be quite a busy time for vicars, what with Nativity plays to attend and Midnight Masses to hold.Read

Hollyoaks Christmas spoilers

HTHE Hollyoaks village is hardly a place of goodwill to all men. At least not when Brendan and Warren are at each other’s throats, and when Warren is being so nasty to poor Mitzeee.Read

Birmingham actress Sarah Smart on babies, Doctor Who and Wallander

IT came as a shock to Sarah Smart when she realised she was playing a widow in her latest drama.Read

EastEnders spoilers from December 12

THICK Ricky comes back from Dubai a very strange colour but with less money than he went with, despite earning a tax-free salary for five months. What an idiot.Read

Coronation Street spoilers from December 12

WE all like to boo and hiss panto villain Tracy, but you might feel sorry for her this week when she miscarries and loses the twins.Read

Emmerdale spoilers from December 12

Cain regains consciousness long enough to blame Jai for attacking him. The police have arrested John for attempted murder, so whodunnit? Everyone suspects each other, and we’re not going to find out for a while.Read

Frozen Planet meets Harry Hill's TV Burp

HAT least we’re not so hard-up in Britain that we have to risk our lives to find food, like the Siberian folk in Frozen Planet. Watching them scale sheer cliffs to collect eggs was extraordinary, though I couldn’t help feeling a little sorry for the guillemots.Read

This time next year, we'll all be millionaires

HI LOVE watching shows like Made In Chelsea and Tamara Ecclestone: Billion $$ Girl because they take us to another world, where people rent luxury yachts, have maids, drive sports cars and buy £60,000 bottles of champagne.Read

EastEnders spoilers from December 5

YUSEF must have been taking lessons from Derren Brown, because he’s a master in mind manipulation. He finally admits to Zainab that he started the fire that nearly killed her when they were married, yet her response is to agree to become his wife again. Eh?Read

Charlie Brooker's satirical new drama

BROADCASTER and writer Charlie Brooker, the man who brought us dramas like Nathan Barley and Dead Set, now has another satirical swipe at modern culture.Read

Emmerdale spoilers from December 5

IT’S a big week in the Dales, as the latest soap whodunnit revolves around the identity of Cain’s attacker.Read

Coronation Street spoilers from December 5

GOSH, is it really a year since the tram crash? Doesn’t time fly!Read

Anna Friel on love and loss

ANNA Friel makes a welcome return to TV in an emotional drama.Read

I'm ready to go...and stop watching dreadful Iceland ads

HMUCH as I like Stacey Solomon, I’m getting very tired of watching her pretend to enjoy herself at her never-ending slow motion party.Read

Chris Moyles and Jeremy Clarkson together is too much smugness at once

IT was really too much arrogant smugness in one place at the same time.Read

Emmerdale spoilers from November 28

NOW this could be a new one. People have given birth in soapland taxis, on beaches and in pubs, but in a graveyard? Amy is alone and terrified, clutching a gravestone, when she goes into premature labour but manages to give birth by herself unusually quickly. And presumably cuts the umbilical cord, but we can’t look too closely at the details.Read

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