In this week's issue
The 84th Annual Academy Awards
It's red carpet time again as Billy Crystal hosts the 84th Oscars from Hollywood
This year’s Oscars is set to be the traditional star-studded event, with presenters including Halle Berry, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Lopez, and cast members from the movie Bridesmaids. And whoever goes home with a golden statuette this year, one of the clear winners is nostalgia.
Victoria Alcock won an army of fans as kind-hearted lag Julie Saunders in Bad Girls, but the actress is hoping to become the most reviled character in EastEnders this week.
Mandy’s long-lost mother Lorraine was last seen when she dumped her daughter on Pat Butcher back in 1992 and there are shocked faces all round as she pitches up in Walford on Ian’s birthday.
As a child, Gareth Gates’ severe stammer meant he was bullied at school. But enrolling on a radical speech therapy course helped him cope, and he’s since become an instructor for the McGuire Programme.
True Blood
Deborah Ann Woll really loves getting her teeth into her role as vampire Jessica in True Blood
Ever since Bill turned her into a vampire, Jessica has struggled to come to terms with her new life. Yet despite making a go of things with Hoyt, she has now admitted to him that she fed from another man — then ‘glamoured’ him so he’d forget all about it! However, as True Blood continues this week, she gives Jason some of her blood to help heal his wounds, so the two now share a connection…
Although she’s well known for her roles in hit shows such as Men Behaving Badly and Jonathan Creek, as well as for her recent travelogues on Cornwall and India, for the past few years Caroline Quentin has chosen her jobs carefully. She’s far from a fussy prima donna — rather, she prefers to fit her work around family life in Devon with husband Sam and their children, Emily, aged 12, and William, eight.
Grumpy, uptight, testy Ed Lynch — was he born that way, or could it have something to do with the glamorous, vivacious mystery woman played by Jill Halfpenny who arrives at Leopard’s Den this week?
Empire
Jeremy Paxman presents a five-part series with a very different take on the rise and fall of the British Empire
How did such a tiny country get such a huge empire? That’s the question posed by Jeremy Paxman in the first of his new five-part-series, looking at a period of history in which Britain not only ruled the waves, but large chunks of the globe as well.
Supersize Vs Superskinny
Dr Christian Jessen takes on another batch of patients with off-the-scale eating habits
For its fifth series, Supersize Vs Superskinny has expanded to massive proportions, as Dr Christian Jessen returns to offer diet and lifestyle advice to 16 people who are either seriously overweight or underweight.
Werewolf Tom, played by Michael Socha, is wary when mysterious Seventies spook Kirby (James Lance) arrives at Honolulu Heights in Being Human this week.
The ghostly guest claims that Nina sent him to help out Annie (Lenora Crichlow) and baby Eve as he used to be a nursery teacher, but does he have a hidden agenda?
Series one of The Indian Doctor followed Dr Prem Sharma, played by Sanjeev Bhaskar, as he made a new life in rural Wales in the early Sixties. Now the much-loved show is back — and the community finds itself under threat from smallpox.
Former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe was at the mercy of the judges on Strictly Come Dancing. Now she’s the one taking control — as the quizmaster of new game show Cleverdicks.
