Staying In

More than three-quarters (78%) of people think the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales was a total waste of money, according to a poll commissioned for BBC Two's Newsnight.

Did you know that the average British woman will marry their 11th sexual partner? But does Mr Eleven always equal Mr Right? Michelle Ryan (Bionic Woman, EastEnders), Sean Maguire (Meet The Spartans, EastEnders) and Adam Garcia (Wicked, Coyote Ugly) form a love triangle driven by one woman’s obsession with numbers in Mr Eleven, a romantic comedy drama from Tiger Aspect.

Hosted by television’s hottest property Alexa Chung and comedy star Rhys Thomas (The Fast Show/Torchwood, Star Stories), The Wall is BBC Three’s weekly comedy event. The brand new series is big on excitement, unpredictability and interaction.

As the clocks sprang forward last Sunday (30th March) nearly a quarter of us intend to dedicate this extra hour of evening daylight to re-discover hobbies rather than using the time to sleep, socialise or spend extra time in the office, according to a survey by Yahoo!

The cost of a colour television licence is set to rise to £139.50 and a black and white licence will cost £47.00, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham announced today.

Jimmy Nail (Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Spender, Crocodile Shoes) will make a welcome return to BBC One starring as Phil Palmer, a former Eighties pop musician with a single solitary hit to his name. Phil is the recently separated father of Jack, drummer in a teen band, in new comedy series Parents Of The Band.

Voted Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards and acclaimed winner of 4 Oscars including Best Direction for the Coen brothers, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor – Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men is a gripping tale of money, murder and mayhem.

Medical Frontiers (working title), presented by Professor Robert Winston, is a new medical series for BBC One, examining the life and death decisions made every day on the edge of medicine.

Multi-award-winning series The Apprentice is back for a 12-week run on BBC One at 9pm on Wednesday 26 March, as no-nonsense, self-made millionaire Sir Alan Sugar returns to challenge a new group of 16 aspiring tycoons, who will battle it out in the toughest challenge of their lives.

The UK's favourite team of spies are gaining a new member in the form of Richard Armitage, who joins Rupert Penry-Jones, Hermione Norris and Peter Firth on the Grid for series seven of Spooks on BBC One, which began filming in and around London earlier this month.