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Best of the box: It's the Muppet Show

Not quite sure of what the best picks of the box are for this week? Or will you regret that you d...
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19.46 14 Dec 2015


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Best of the box: It's the Muppet Show

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Not quite sure of what the best picks of the box are for this week? Or will you regret that you didn't record something during the week when everyone is suddenly talking about it?

Fear not, Tom Dunne has you covered.

Sue Murphy joined Tom to pick out the best of the box this week and there really is a lot of great TV picks.

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Film of the Week: The Muppets, Saturday, BBC1, 1.55pm

When three Muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the Muppet Theater for oil, Gary, Mary and Walter set out to find the Muppets who have been split up for years so that they can put on one last show and save the Muppet Theater.

If you haven't seen this, it's totally worth your time.

Online Pick of the Week - The Secret Life of 4, 5 and 6 year olds, All4

How do young children make and break friendships and learn to share, stand up for themselves, and find their place in a new social group?

The children share warm and memorable insights into what the festive season is all about! Children from the original programme and the series team up to put on their own nativity play. How do they cope with the pressure and the challenges of working together?

Best of the Box

Back in Time for Christmas, Monday, BBC2, 9pm
 
It really will be Christmas every day as the Robshaw family, stars of BBC2's Back in Time for Dinner, time-travel through six decades of festive nostalgia.

Love You To Death, A Year of Domestic Violence, Wednesday, BBC2, 9pm
 
On average, seven women are killed every month in Britain by their husband, partner or ex-partner. Vanessa Engle’s ambitious and important film tells the gripping and untold human stories behind this shocking yet faceless statistic, shedding light on a majorly important subject - the continuing and disproportionate violence visited by men on women every day.

This powerful and poignant landmark film by acclaimed BBC director Vanessa Engle, (Inside Harley Street, Walking With Dogs, Money) gives an unprecedented insight into the deaths of women murdered by the men who knew them intimately, and cared most about them. 

Mandela, My Dad and Me, Thursday, Discovery, 10pm
 
In a documentary recorded as he prepared to step into the shoes of Nobel Peace laureate Nelson Mandela in biopic Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom, actor and DJ Idris Elba sets out to create a studio album comprised of South African music, in tribute to the former statesman, and his own father.

Queen, - Froms Rags to Rhapsody, Friday, BBC4, 10pm
 
Documentary following the rock band's early years, from the initial forming of the group through to the release of Bohemian Rhapsody, the song that catapulted them to fame.

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