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What have you been watching this week (w/e December 10)?

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Oops. Back after a two week gap, it’s “What have you been watching this week?”, your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched this week.

So I’ve caught up on a few things, fallen behind on a few others. It’s all so tricky, this TV-watching lark. Fortunately, it’s December in the US, which means House, Chuck et al are all sitting it out for a while.

After the jump, Al Murray’s German Adventure, The Apprentice, Chuck, Community, Dexter, In Treatment, Misfits, Modern Family, No Ordinary Family, Peep Show, Robert’s Web, Running Wilde, Smallville, Stargate Universe, and The Walking Dead.

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Thursday’s “resurrected 70s kids show” news

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A trailer for BBC4’s Dirk Gently

Howard Overman, the very talented man behind Misfits, has adapted Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency as a one-hour drama for BBC4 starring Stephen Mangan, Helen Baxendale and Darren Boyd, and called simply Dirk Gently. If successful, it could become a TV series.

Now, here’s the trailer. What do you think? Good or not? Series or not?

Wednesday’s pruning news

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  • Channel 5 acquires The Walking Dead [subscription required]

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