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Mandy’s Pick of the Day | Monday 1 February

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9pm, Glee, E4
Calling all Gleeks. This week you’re in for a treat with covers of Liza Minnelli’s Maybe This Time and Queen’s Somebody to Love. Will enlists the help of his old school crush and one-time Glee club star April Rhodes, who never graduated and, therefore, is still eligible to join Glee. April (Pushing Daisies’ Kristin Chenoweth), however, is not the best influence on Will’s troupe. The club needs Rachel, but Will Finn be able to charm her into returning before New Directions performs at the Invitationals?

10pm, The Good Wife, Channel 4
Another chance to see episode two of the new drama; Alicia finds incriminating pictures of her jailed husband and has mixed feelings about allowing her children to visit him in prison. She represents a stripper who was raped at a stag party and who may also have been a victim of domestic violence. The next episode can be seen on More4 on Thursday at 9pm.

10pm, Nurse Jackie, BBC2
Jackie’s drug abuse begins to take its toll, and she comes to blows with Dr Cooper over a potential organ donor. Meanwhile, the parents of the abandoned baby in Mrs Akalitus’s care turn up at the hospital.

10pm, Burn Notice, FX
LAST ONE In an explosive series finale, Michael captures the rogue agent who was responsible for the bombing, and the two join forces to take on Carla and her boss. Our superspy hero also learns some facts about Victor.

Mandy’s Pick of the Day | Monday 25 January

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9pm, Glee, E4
When Quinn announces she is pregnant, Finn is led to believe he’s the dad. Meanwhile, Kurt joins the football team to please his father, Sue gets a regular spot on local TV, and Rachel quits the Glee Club.

10pm, The Good Wife, Channel 4
NEW SERIES It’s long overdue, but Julianna Margulies finally returns to our screens, starring as the lawyer wife of a shamed politician, played by Chris Noth (Sex and The City’s Mr Big) who’s forced to return to work after he’s imprisoned. It’s a slick, well-written piece of television, and after tonight the first showing switches to Thursdays on More4.

10pm, Nurse Jackie, BBC2
Mrs Akalitus reveals a hidden soft side when she’s left holding an abandoned baby. Meanwhile, Cooper overhears Jackie on the phone and discovers she has a daughter. Will he keep the information to himself? Will he buffalo! That boy should be on Gossip Girl.

10pm, Burn Notice, FX
Michael has to put his vendetta to one side when his ex fiancée shows up looking for her old Coldplay CD. No, hang on, that’s a different episode. She’s got a bigger problem on her hands this time - someone has kidnapped her son and is trying to force her to steal a tracking chip before they’ll return the boy…

Mandy’s Pick of the Day | Monday 21 December

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9pm, One Tree Hill, E4
As the series bows out Nathan confronts Haley and Jamie after being released from the Chiefs. Lucas and Peyton prepare for the birth of their child, and Brooke works with Victoria to relaunch Clothes Over Bro’s.

10pm, Ugly Betty, Channel 4
Another chance to see the series three finale. Betty and Marc are left to battle it out for the same job after the death of Mode’s features editor. Wilhelmina blackmails Claire, forcing her to resign or her secret will be revealed. Matt makes a life-changing decision, and Justin waits to see if he’s been awarded a place at stage school.

10pm, Burn Notice, FX & HD
Michael helps a football player who is being threatened by a gangster.

10pm, Without a Trace, More4
A trial consultant goes missing and the team try to narrow down the list of suspects involved in his disappearance. Samantha and Jack get used to Brian spending more time with their son Finn.

Mandy’s Pick of the Day | Monday 14 December

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9pm, One Tree Hill, E4
Some surprise guests arrive at Peyton and Lucas’s wedding, and Hayley plays an unexpected role in the ceremony. Meanwhile, Nathan is still hoping to get into the NBA.

10pm, Burn Notice, FX & HD
Michael is called on to help a suicidal man who lost his life savings in a medical scam after investing in a miracle drug for his desperately ill son. Michael also has some questions for Carla, and wants to know who tried to blow him up.

10pm, Without a Trace, More4
A mother and her baby go missing after a fire alarm goes off at a self-defence class. As Jack and the team investigate, it becomes clear that both the woman’s husband and her ex-boyfriend are not who they seem.

Mandy’s Pick of the Day | Monday 30 November

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9pm, FlashForward, Five
In the last episode before the show takes its mid-series break, Mark tries to find out the identity of the gangsters who targeted his team, and the FBI get a possible lead on the cause of the visions.

9pm, One Tree Hill, E4
Lucas and Peyton take a memorable road trip and Brooke discovers news that could change Sam’s life.

10pm, Burn Notice, FX & HD
Michael is asked by fellow spy Larry to carry out a hit on a wealthy widow, but then he discovers there is more than one contract out on her life. Tim Matheson, who guests as Larry, also directs this episode.

10pm, Without a Trace, More4
Jack and the team are faced with a double disappearance when two suburban housewives are violently abducted. The search becomes more frantic when one of them is found shot and left for dead.

11pm, The Closer, More4
Brenda’s wedding plans are put on hold again when she is called upon to look into a possible murder. Matters are further complicated when Fritz’s sister offers to help the investigation using her supposed psychic abilities.

Six things we learned today | Wednesday 25 November

24 season eight

1. 24’s back on US screens on Sunday 17 January - hopefully Sky won’t make us wait too much longer…

2. Here’s another preview of Chuck season three.

3. Lie to Me’s second season has been granted a full series.

4. Burn Notice has been commissioned for a fourth series.

5. Glee’s taking a four-month mid-season break Stateside.

6. Is this the best Battlestar Galactica cake… ever?

Mandy’s Pick of the Day | Monday 23 November

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9pm, FlashForward, Five
Demetri’s colleagues seek out the mysterious caller who forewarned him about his death. Meanwhile, Mark tries to track down the person who revealed to Olivia that he was drinking in his flash-forward vision.

 9pm, One Tree Hill, E4
Lucas struggles to comfort Peyton when her pregnancy is threatened, and Victoria tries to persuade Brooke to come back to work. Haley and Nathan clash about taking Jamie out of his school and Mouth sets out to make amends with Millicent.

10pm, Burn Notice, FX & HD
Former soldier Virgil asks Sam and the team if they can help him track down a fortune in stolen medicine, which was destined for sick children but hijacked by pirates off the coast of Miami.

10pm, Without a Trace, More4
Roselyn Sanchez, who plays FBI Agent Elena Delgado, came up with the idea for this week’s storyline in which Delgado’s former police partner disappears. Lisa Vidal (best known as Sandy Lopez in ER) plays the missing woman.

11pm, The Closer, More4
Brenda meets her match in the form of a slick attorney who represents a suspected murderer and serial rapist. Deputy DA Garnett forces the team to accept a plea bargain, but no one is prepared for the results.

Mandy’s Pick of the Day | Monday 16 November

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9pm, FlashForward, Five
Mark gets a lead on the tattooed assassin he saw in his flash-forward, Simon and Lloyd play a game of poker to settle old scores, and Aaron uncovers the harsh truth behind his daughter’s death.

9pm, One Tree Hill, E4
Peyton prepares for the future, while Lucas takes Nathan and Jamie to a significant place from his past. Elsewhere, Julian makes Brooke a surprising offer.

10pm, Burn Notice, FX & HD
An old friend of Michael asks him to help prove he’s not embezzling money from the charity of a gangsta rap star (guest star Method Man). To succeed, Michael must convince the real thief to steal a larger sum.

10pm, Without a Trace, More4
Sam discovers that Brian, the father of her baby, is back in town and wants to see his son. Meanwhile, the team searches for a bar owner who has disappeared, along with a weeping statue of Saint Theresa.

11pm, The Closer, More4
When the body of a hugely overweight man is found decomposing in his car boot, Brenda and her team must try to solve his murder without knowing how he died. Meanwhile, there is no let-up in Brenda’s wedding preparations.

Mandy’s Pick of the Day | Monday 9 November

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9pm, FlashForward, Five
Alex Kingston is back as M16 agent Fiona Banks as the team investigates a spate of suicides. Aaron receives a visit from a former friend of his daughter, while Demetri finally tells Zoey about his lack of a flash-forward.

9pm, One Tree Hill, E4
Lucas and Julian’s film hits a setback and Brooke is forced to intervene when Sam is arrested. Elsewhere, Peyton and Haley help Mia with her new single.

10pm, Burn Notice, FX & HD
Michael tries to destroy a den of thieves from within as he takes on the job of safe-cracker to help out a reformed ex-con who can’t back out of a jewellery heist. Meanwhile, Sam turns to Fi for relationship advice when Veronica proposes, and the elusive Carla has a surprise for Michael.

10pm, Without a Trace, More4
The team investigates a case of a missing teenager, last seen by her bipolar mother, but things get complicated when they discover the teen led a double life.

11pm, The Closer, More4
Brenda’s parents visit and pressure her into setting a date for the wedding. However, she can’t resist helping the squad investigate a murder, despite the presence of her house guests.

Mandy’s Pick of the Day | Monday 2 November

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9pm, FlashForward, Five
As Olivia finally confronts Mark about what he saw in his flash-forward, Demetri and Gough track down a clue to the mass blackout, and Lloyd’s son, Dylan, goes missing from the hospital.

9pm, One Tree Hill, E4
Peyton and Lucas receive a surprise about the pregnancy, while Brooke and Julian have to make an important decision about their relationship. Meanwhile, Nathan and Haley celebrate their anniversary.

10pm, Burn Notice, FX & HD
Nate asks Michael if he can help one of his co-workers at the limo company, a young Russian woman whose sister has been smuggled into America by mobsters and who is now being held to ransom.

10pm, Without a Trace, More4
The team investigates the case of a missing local TV weatherman, who disappeared after arriving at work bleeding from his body.

11pm, The Closer, More4
Members of the squad realise a teenager who was recently killed by his own bomb was not working alone. As they race against the clock to prevent a massacre, they risk paying the ultimate price for their work.