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Only Connect: The Final

At last, after 15 weeks, the Only Connect champions of 2008 have been found. The Crossworders trounced the Lapsed Psychologists in the most difficult quiz show ever invented and proved beyond doubt they are miles smarter than anybody else. They not only know their Greek alphabet, like all the other contestants, but they actually know other things as well. This show should be shown at primetime on ITV and replace Golden Balls to mark the end of dumbing down. Do you know, they actually have questions on here that make no references to soaps, Harry Potter or 'how many gold rings' there are in Twelve Days of Christmas.

Coronation Street: Christmas Happenings

You'd think the biggest mystery over the Christmas period in Coronation Street would be what has happened to Jed Stone. If you thought this, you'd be wrong. No, the question we're all asking is where did she (Carla) get that hat, where did she get that hat. In second place, we (I anyway) would like to know where Audrey spent Christmas day. While Joe was going with the flow of a soapland Christmas, ie throwing vol-au-vents at the neighbours, she was nowhere to be found. Ok, she resurfaced to accuse Maria of going mad on Boxing Day, but did not bother to explain who she ate turkey with and why she wasn't at Gail's. In third place, how come there was enough paint on the brush for Becky to insert the R in MUDERER to save Maria's graffiti blushes. Apart from these queries, it passed the test of being watchable.

Coronation Street: The Christmas Carol

If Tony Gordon is Scrooge, and Jed and Maria are the ghosts of Christmas past and present, who's playing Tiny Tim? You'd expect this to be Simon, the long-lost-son of Peter, I suppose, but it would be more fitting to have a change from tradition and go with Blanche. She suffers as much with her leg as the Tiny one does, and she could do with a bit of kindness after reciting all the best lines.

While we're asking questions about the nation's favourite soap, who in their right mind would accuse somebody of murder and then arrange to meet them in the back alley (so to speak)? Jed would that's who, and I can't help thinking Tony will get that money back off him one way or another.