From Rihanna's 10-night run at the O2 to Michael Sheen's Hamlet and the London Jazz Festival, there's plenty to look forward to between now and Christmas
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A Peter Morgan drama, a Philip Glenister series, dressing up and down in Downton Abbey and another Killing: Steve Morrissey looks at the highlights of the new season... more
David Mitchell and Robert Webb are so busy with assorted solo appearances, columns and quizzes that it was a scoop to coax them together and they did not disappoint... more
Ricky Gervais and co-creator Stephen Merchant forgot the gags when they assembled their cast of bright newcomers and set them to work in a disappointing Seventies nostalgia trip.... more
Ricky Gervais has hand-picked the most charismatic, beautiful and talented young British stars for his new movie. Hermione Eyre meets the future of film... more
"This was Midnight Underground Rebel Bingo, a hardcore bingo night, not to be taken lightly nor attended by old people or children." The underground bingo scene explored.... more
The Office: The Opera started out as a joke when composer, Anne Chmelewsky, decided to turn the saga of Wernham Hogg into an opera as a way to "take the piss" out of the stuffy classical music course she was taking... more
A charity benefit night that was already packed with extremely funny people may not have been the ideal launchpad for Jessica Hynes' stand-up career, says Bruce Dessau.... more
Children's TV presenter turned stand-up Kirsten O'Brien has enough mildly scurrilous anecdotes and more than enough cheekiness to make an hour fly by, says Bruce Dessau.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports