Every week our square-eyed reporters take a look at what’s on TV – the highlights and the lowlights – and pick what they think you should watch or avoid.

Celebrity Wedding Planner, Channel 5, Friday 10pm

Their wedding day can be the biggest day of many women’s lives. We can spend months planning ‘the big day’ – the venue, the guest list and that dress as well as the finer details such as the colour scheme and favours.

We’ve all heard tales about interfering mums and mother-in-laws but if, like me, you are an obsessively organised control freak, there is no way on earth you would let someone else plan your day.

But for the more relaxed among us, Channel 5 has offered an alternative to Don’t Tell the Bride, and rather than let the husband-to-be plan the day and fear the wrath of a disappointed bride, they have handed the reins over to celebrities.

In the third episode of this series, former The Apprentice contestants Stuart Baggs and Raef Bjayou are tasked with organising a couple’s Ibiza-themed wedding – but the pair have other ideas.

With every aspect of the day to plan, they come up with the novel idea of having the couple’s dogs as ringbearers.

At least they didn’t have Jedward, unlike the couple in last week’s episode!


Birdsong, BBC One, Sunday 9pm

This episode is the first of a two-part drama based on Sebastian Faulks’ novel set against the backdrop of the First World War.

The book is set in France 1910 and follows Englishman Stephen Wraysford as he arrives to work at a textile factory and lives with the Azaire family. Before long falls in love with the lady of the house and they begin an affair.

I read this book a few years ago and re-read it again last month – it is absolutely thrilling, a real must-read that I found myself unable to put down. I just hope the drama is as good as the book.


Party Paramedics Channel 4, Monday 11pm

The country’s nightlife is often well documented in the national press, with pictures of people falling out of nightclubs and girls in skimpy dresses and skyscraper heels.

Now Channel 4 have created a documentary following paramedics and volunteers as they travel around Colchester in Essex on the ‘booze bus’, helping out clubbers.

The service is funded by local bars and clubs and the series sees the team deal with everything from accidental falls to the results of alcohol and drug-fuelled fights.


Run Fatboy Run Channel 4, Wednesday 10.35pm

Simon Pegg stars as ‘fatboy’ Dennis Doyle, who tries to prove his love to his former fiancée by running a marathon – after leaving her at the altar, pregnant, five years previously.

Directed by David Schwimmer – better known as Ross from friends – Run Fatboy Run has some funny moments as Dennis looks doomed to fail his challenge and lose the love of his life to the new man in hers.