Peter’s Pick of the Day | Wednesday 8 September

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9pm, Ugly Betty, E4 & HD
Betty feels left out when Daniel makes Natalie (guest star Jamie-Lynn Sigler) his new assistant, then gets more depressed when she can’t find a plus-one for Wilhelmina’s fund-raiser.
• Catch it again on E4 next Saturday and Channel 4, Sunday

9pm, Leverage, Bravo
The con job is on when Nate and his crew try to recover a priceless Gustav Klimt artwork by squaring off against a band of thieves. Griffin Dunne and Wil Wheaton guest star.
• Catch it again next Tuesday at 8pm

10pm, Mad Men, BBC4 & HD
NEW SERIES As the fourth series kicks off, Don’s reluctance to talk about himself ruins a prestigious trade-paper interview. Meanwhile, Pete and Peggy stage a stunt in an effort to secure more money from a meat-company client, and Roger fixes Don up on a blind date.

10pm, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Channel Five & HD
Goren and Eames investigate the torture and murder of a writer, following leads that include her criminal boyfriend, a creepy agent and dodgy friends.

10pm, Burn Notice, FX & HD
A Miami detective (guest star Moon Bloodgod) discovers Michael’s stash of explosives, forcing him to work quickly to hide them before she can obtain a warrant. Elsewhere, the team uses an unusual form of interrogation to locate a kidnapping victim.
• Catch it again on Friday, 11.10pm and next Sunday at 12.15am

11.20pm, Californication, Fiver
Hank’s attempts to set things right with Karen lead to even deeper entanglements with the campus ladies. In the meantime, Charlie tries to prevent Sue’s top client (Peter Fonda, playing himself) from leaving the agency.

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• BBC’s epic swords-and-sorcery drama returns, and Merlin’s about to delve into darker territory. We get the lowdown from the show’s star, Colin Morgan

• The BAFTA-winning comedy The Inbetweeners is back for a third series, and Neil, Jay and Simon are as hopelessly inept as ever

• A season of programmes marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain begins with the drama-documentary First Light, based on the experiences of young fighter pilot Geoffrey ‘Boy’ Wellum. The season also features David Jason in a documentary and a drama

• Jamie Oliver is on a new mission, tackling the less than healthy eating habits of folks in the good old US of A in Jamie’s American Food Revolution

• An all-star cast features in the drama The Road to Coronation Street, exploring what went on behind the scenes in the  early days of the long-running soap

• Gordon Ramsay launches his new show, Ramsay’s Best Restaurant, which he’s confidently describing as ‘The X Factor for restaurants’

All this, plus of course the very best listings for Sky and Virgin customers, and our weekly round-ups of new documentaries, films, sport events, crime dramas and all the tears and tantrums of the soaps. Click on the pages below for a closer look.

Jeremy’s Pick of the Day | Tuesday 7 September

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8pm, A Town Called Eureka, Syfy & HD
When a prototype sets everyone into bad temper mode, the situation escalates beyond Jack’s control. As Jack, Allison and Tess are the only sane people at Global Dynamics, they have to devise a plan that will make everything calm and happy again. Meanwhile, Henry is helping Dr Grant re-build the bridge that got them back to the new world, only to find that everything they touch disappears.

9pm, CSI: Miami, Channel Five
When a man at a party (at which Ryan and Cardoza are working undercover) falls in a pool of deadly jellyfish, Cardoza risks his life by trying to get the man out of the pool. But he can’t and the man dies, giving the CSIs a new case to investigate. However, confusion arises when the suspects have different stories about what happened. Meanwhile, Delko and Calleigh talk to the victim’s wife, who is desperate to get her hands on the insurance money. But when they call the insurance company, their investigation takes a new turn.

9pm, Smallville, E4
When Clark and Lois try to get away for a weekend, they end up at the same Scottish bed-and-breakfast as Chloe and Oliver. The couples try to deal with their awkwardness, but face more important problems when woman is possessed by a 300-year-old Scottish banshee who seeks vengeance on men. Meanwhile, Tess learns Zod’s secret, and the Major discovers that he’s not as omnipotent as he believed.

Five things we learned today | Friday 3 September

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Tricia Helfer guest stars on Lie to Me

1. Battlestar’s Tricia Helfer is to guest star on Lie to Me.

2. Bit Mekhi Phifer is leaving Lie to Me as the Lightman Group go a little rogue in season three…

3. Here’s the first picture of The Wire’s Andre ‘Bubbles’ Royo guest starring in Fringe.

4. Many of True Blood’s new season three characters will be back for season four.

5. NYPD Blue’s Sharon Lawrence is joining One Tree Hill as Julian’s mother.

Judy’s Pick of the Day | Friday 3 September

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9pm, Medium, Living
After the Dubois’ car is smashed into, Ariel has a dream that the driver responsible is a schoolfriend’s pill-popping mum. Allison hires a new car and discovers she can hear the voices of other motorists through the radio.

10pm, Dexter, FX & FX HD
When the Trinity Killer strikes again, Deb finds her feelings for Lundy rekindled as they work on the case together. On the homefront, Dexter is preoccupied by a vandal who is trashing the neighbourhood.

Heather’s Pick of the Day | Thursday 2 September

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9pm, Lie to Me, Sky1 & HD
Cal agrees to let daughter Emily shadow him at work, but he starts to regret the decision when his latest case involves a girl of a similar age who has run away from home and gotten caught up in the world of porn films. Surely there’s some filing Emily can be getting on with…
• Catch it again tomorrow on Sky2 at 9pm, or on Sk1 at 11pm

9pm, The Closer, More4
An oversized box is delivered to the department, which turns out to contain a man’s body. The investigation turns up four suspects, and Brenda has to come up with a cunning way of working out which one is the killer, all the while coaching Gabriel for his detective exam.
• Catch it again at 12m’t, or next Wednesday at 11.05pm

10pm, Private Practice, Living
There’s even more tension than usual at the centre when Maya announces that she’s pregnant - cue completely opposing viewpoints from Sam and Naomi, and a lot of frustration all round. Elsewhere, Charlotte moves in with Violet, but that’s not far enough away for Cooper, who wants her to leave the practice altogether.
• Catch it again at 11pm on Living+1; or on Sky and Virgin’s catch-up services

10pm, Southland, More4
With Chickie now partnerless, Cooper is assigned to her so Sherman gets to go on his first solo patrol, and he finds himself getting quite wrapped up in the case of a child who has gone missing and a petrified woman who says she’s being stalked by her ex-boyfriend.
• Catch it again at 1am; or on 4 on Demand

Peter’s Pick of the Day | Wednesday 1 September

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9pm, Ugly Betty, E4 & HD
Marc and Betty work out their differences while working on a story about New York’s worst jobs. Meanwhile, Natalie’s group leader takes an unusual interest in Daniel.
• Catch it again on E4 next Saturday and Channel 4, Sunday

9pm, Leverage, Bravo
The crew squares off against a corrupt corporation that has been marketing tainted food. The scheme team has a trick up its sleeve - they put on a fake magic show in an effort to slip through the corporation’s tight security to get proof.
• Catch it again next Tuesday at 8pm

9pm, Ghost Whisperer, Living & Virgin HD
Melinda investigates when the ghost of a high-school student claims a policeman murdered him. But is there more to the case than meets the eye?
• Catch it again on Sunday at 8pm

10pm, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Channel Five & HD
A corrupt judge’s wife is shot dead, and Logan and Falacci’s investigations soon lead them to a string of suspects, all with tangled motives. Steve Guttenberg guest stars.

10pm, Burn Notice, FX & HD
NEW SERIES Michael may have survived last season’s cliffhanger, but now he’s stuck in prison and his only chance to get out is to arrange the extradition of a thug from a Latin American country. Will he accept? Of course, he will.
• Catch it again on Friday, 1105pm and next Sunday at 12.10am

11.20pm, Californication, Fiver
With Karen visiting, Hank has to deal with her finding about his affairs and her plan to move the family to New York. Meanwhile, Charlie has to deal with Marcy’s crush on Rick Springfield.

Five things we learned today | Tuesday, 31 August

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1. Here’s the mega new trailer for Desperate Housewives, featuring Vanessa Williams.

2. Former Bond Timothy Dalton is set for a guest stint on Chuck.

3. Final Destination’s Devon Sawyer has joined the cast of Nikita, coming to Living next month.

4. Eddie Izzard’s joined the cast of The United States of Tara, Showtime’s Toni-Collette- starring comedy.

5. Oh, and the Emmys happened - with Modern Family, Breaking Bad and Mad Men doing rather well…

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• Mad Men is back! Find out how Don Draper and his associates are faring now that they’ve started up their own ad agency, and how Don’s coping as a single man.

• Remember Shane Meadows‘ award-winning film about his northern childhood This Is England? Well, he’s made a four-part sequel catching up with Shaun and the gang, called This Is England ’86.

• From sequels to remakes… Bouquet of Barbed Wire shocked British TV viewers back in 1976 with its portrayal of tempestuous family relationships, and now Trevor Eve and Hermione Norris star in a reworking of the drama set to stun a new generation.

• The police and prosecutors are back on the case in our very own Law & Order: UK. Jamie Bamber talks about how his character has been affected by a string of gruelling cases, and what’s to come in the new series.

• TV Spy gets a new addition - raunchy new US drama Swingers, starring Jack Davenport and Grant Show as 1970s neighbours who are about to get a whole lot more familiar with one another.

• Tara Fitzgerald and David Morrissey find themselves living in the shadow of fear as a stalker tears their life apart in U Be Dead.

All this, and of course our pick of the rest of this week’s new dramas, comedies, documentaries and films, our small but perfectly formed soap round-up, and a comprehensive guide to rugby union’s new Premiership season; and of course the very best listings for Sky and Virgin customers.

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Jeremy’s Pick of the Day | Tuesday 31 August

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8pm, A Town Called Eureka, Syfy
When the five time travelers (Sheriff Carter, Deputy Lupo, Dr. Blake, Dr. Deacon, and Dr Fargo) get back to Eureka, they find out that the town is anything but normal. Lupo is no longer a deputy but the head of GD security, Dr Blake is the medical director of GD, and Dr Fargo finds himself being the director of GD. Carter says ‘Yes’ when Tess asks him about the ‘thing’, only later realising that Tess is going to move in with him. They also realise that they no longer have the ability to repair their timeline because the device that returned them to the altered future overloaded and exploded. They must keep quiet and live their new lives for the time being and have Dr Grant adjust to the 21st Century until they can return him.

9pm, CSI: Miami, Channel Five
The CSIs investigate the mysterious case of how two cars managed to collide while one was almost standing still, and what baffles the team is that a woman in one car was killed, a man in the same car was injured, while the man in the other car escaped unscathed. However, Cardoza talks to the survivor’s wife, who claims the car her husband drove was stolen. Meanwhile, the surviving man mysteriously drops dead while in CSI custody. LA Lakers’ basketball star Pau Gasol guests as the driver of the second vehicle.

9pm, Smallville, E4
Three Kandorians are abducted by a crazed doctor on whom they performed experiments and who now believes that they are alien invaders intent on conquest. Clark insists on investigating and butts heads with Zod. Meanwhile, the doctor also abducts Lois and tries to convince her to publish his story, and Tess tells Oliver to find the person responsible for embezzling funds from the company. Zod disguises himself as a Daily Planet reporter, but is shot for his efforts.

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