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  TV matters: the Public Enemies chaos

  4 Jan 2012: The BBC pulled its drama Public Enemies and replaced it with a Panorama about the Stephen Lawrence murder. Could the chaos this caused viewers have been avoided?

• The arts in 2012: the British blind spot

  29 Dec 2011: Mark Lawson kicks off our 2012 arts special by looking at how the Olympic Games will highlight the cracks in our culture

• TV matters: festive fixtures

  28 Dec 2011: Jools's Annual Hootenanny is the nearest thing we have today to an annual favourite such as Morecambe & Wise

• TV review: Downton Abbey

  25 Dec 2011: Julian Fellowes goads historians with some upstairs-downstairs mixing, but the Christmas special was still a return to form

• Mark Lawson - what TV to watch in 2012

  25 Dec 2011: From Julian Fellowes' Titanic to US import Homeland and a new Sherlock in January, 2012 has treats in store

• The Instructions by Adam Levin – review

  23 Dec 2011: Mark Lawson enjoys an extended riff on the Jewish-American novel

• How the arts risk-takers reaped their rewards

  23 Dec 2011: Mark Lawson: From The King's Speech to the Great British Bake Off this year's arts winners ignored the safety-first rules of surviving a downturn

• TV matters: The most popular shows of 2011

  22 Dec 2011: In a year of astonishing political, financial and media developments, the most watched news bulletin featured Prince William and Kate Middleton getting hitched, writes Mark Lawson

• TV matters: Daybreak

  14 Dec 2011:

  Temporary hosts Dan Lobb and Kate Garraway are desperate to show they are the right people for the job. What excitement at breakfast time, writes Mark Lawson

• TV review: The X Factor final

  11 Dec 2011: This year, The X Factor has given the impression that it may not now be far away from becoming an ex-show

• TV matters: Variety shows

  7 Dec 2011: It was designed as a transitional format in the early days of mainstream TV. But Variety has proved strangely resilient

• The cinema that's also a restaurant

  5 Dec 2011: Michelin-starred chef Rowley Leigh is offering film-goers gourmet food while they watch the film. A great idea or a terrible one?

• TV matters: Christmas comes early

  30 Nov 2011: The schedules should not become an advent calendar – 17 December is soon enough for festive specials

• Joe Penhall: Regrets? Too few to mention

  29 Nov 2011: He spent five years on a script and then walked away. He was thrown off a publicity tour for ruining The Road's Oscar chances. Writer Joe Penhall tells Mark Lawson why truculence works

• TV matters: Only Fools and Horses

  23 Nov 2011: Viewers will laugh again when the much-loved chandelier scene is repeated – but what does that tell us about comedy, asks Mark Lawson

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