TV

The Newsroom
1x01 We Just Decided To
Seems to have been quite a lot of criticism of this in the press, but I really enjoyed it. Took a while to get going certainly, and there were flaws in other areas too, but overall I thought it worked. If it can build up the good bits and pull back on the bad over the next few episodes, it'll be great.

Mock the Week
11x05 (12/7/12 edition)
Last week it was episode 100, week before that they'd actually made a Monsoon Poultry Hospital DVD, this time Andy Murray's in the audience -- they seem to be rolling out the special this series.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]