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Sky Arts shows it means business

Maggie Brown: With its Playhouse Presents plays, live opera and a new series starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm, Sky Arts is increasingly moving up the must-watch list

Can a show recover from the loss of its creator?

Sarah Hughes: Community fans have been left reeling by the firing of the show's creator Dan Harmon. But is there any hope for the cult sitcom, or do shows inevitably decline when their creators depart?

TV review: Gok Cooks Chinese; Eurovision's Dirty Secret: Panorama

I'd take fashion advice from Gok Wan, but I'm not so sure about his cooking

TV highlights 22/05/12

Silk | Great Ormond Street | Harlots, Housewives & Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls | Mad Men | My Fat Fetish | Hit & Miss

Six to watch: TV's best parents

Daniel Bettridge: From Erinsborough to the Orange County via Milwaukee's Happy Days, we pick the best small-screen parental double acts

Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall – live chat with the co-creators

How did they do it? Join Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the co-creators of the British TV hit, for a live chat at 2pm ET on Monday after the weekend's explosive US series finale

Game of Thrones: season two, episode eight – The Prince of Winterfell

Sarah Hughes's series blog: Betrayal, intrigue and despair feature in an occasionally slow-moving but fascinating episode

TV highlights 21/05/2012

Chelsea Flower Show 2012 | Love Shaft | Gok Cooks Chinese | The Fall Of Singapore: The Great Betrayal | Game Of Thrones | American Experience: New York

Mick Jagger hip-thrusts and flounces his way through SNL finale

Maura Johnston: The Rolling Stones frontman vamped, preened and mimicked Steven Tyler as Arcade Fire and the Foo Fighters got in on the act

TV review: UEFA Champions League Final: Bayern Munich v Chelsea

Adrian Chiles on ITV is like watching with a comedy uncle. But Sky has Jeff Stelling, writes Sam Wollaston

Rewind TV: Chatsworth; Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You?; Starlings; 56 Up

For those suffering Downton withdrawal symptoms, the BBC provided a cure with Chatsworth revisited, writes Phil Hogan

Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen

She's won more Baftas than any other actress. Here, Julie Walters tells Euan Ferguson about her hippy years, life in the country and why it's never been a better time to be a woman on TV

Bafta TV special/Abi Morgan: A golden year for television

As the countdown to next week's British Academy Television Awards begins, Abi Morgan, screenwriter of The Hour, Shame and The Iron Lady, reveals why it's been a golden year for television

Bafta TV special/Kathy Burke: Kathy come home

We fell in love with Kathy Burke when she appeared on our screens as Waynetta Slob and Linda in Gimme Gimme Gimme. Now she's written a TV drama based on her 70s childhood that will steal hearts. She shares a cuppa with Miranda Sawyer

Rewind radio: Whatever Happened to Bobbie Gentry?; Beryl and Betty with David Reeves; The Listening Project; Jeremy Vine

The search for one of the great lost stars of country music made a compelling documentary, writes Miranda Sawyer:
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