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Friday: Old comedy, synth and Burning (16/10/2009) I keep, keep singing 'I keep, keep bleeding at book signings'. Happy weekend.

What To Watch Armstrong And Miller, BBC1, 9pm Recently, tvBite had a fairly frosty Q and A with Alexander Armstrong. After he called our questions silly and insisted on answering them by e-mail, we resolved never to trust anyone who calls themself 'Xander'. Silly, indeed. You dress up for a living. Anyhow, we're a giving TV email and we don't bear grudges (though that daytime quiz show thing was total rubbish). So, we're delighted to see his sketch show with his more talented partner Ben Miller is back on. It was made a year ago and shelved by the brainiacs in the BBC for 12 months to see if it would mature like a fine cheese. Perhaps because we know that, it seems just a little bit dated. Maybe that's us projecting though. It's still funny, containing all your old favourites - the RAF chav talkers etc. The best new sketch is the Blue Peter presenters and their drunken scandals. Traditional stuff but quality nonetheless. (Ben Miller is better).   Synth Britannia, BBC4, 9pm Though the 'Britannia' is an irritating name, their documentaries have been reliably excellent. This investigates the birth of electronic music as a popular form in Britain. It nods at Kraftwerk before focusing on stalker-marrying light-aircraft enthusiast Gary Numan and moving through to our friends electric Phil Oakey and Bernard Sumner. It's all good stuff and followed by Synth At The BBC, BBC4, 10pm.   Always good value Jack Dee is on Jonathan Ross, BBC1, 10.35pm with Alesha Dixon and Vince Vaughn. Also... New series of Have I Got News For You, BBC1, 9pm hosted by Doc Martin. Peep Show, C4, 10pm hosts a party. And we thought there was a new ep of Burn Notice but actually it starts on Monday.

What To Eat Vegetarian Lancashire hot pot Blah blah, blah. Simon Rimmer's Dinners, Good Food, 9pm Prep time: 15 mins Cook time: 1 1/4 hrs Serves: 6 Easy 1 onion, sliced 1 garlic clove, crushed 50ml olive oil 2 tbsps tomato purée 150ml Madeira 450ml vegetable stock 3 tbsps pearl barley (not soaked) 3 small parsnips, roughly chopped 3 carrots, roughly chopped 5 stalks celery, cut into 3cm pieces 1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves For the topping 4 baking potatoes 2 tbsps olive oil or 1 tbsp melted butter, for brushing over the potatoes To make the sauce, fry the onion and garlic in the 50ml olive oil for about 4-5 minutes, or until the onion starts to soften. Stir in the tomato purée then cook for 5 minutes, stirring often. Pour in the Madeira, bring the mixture to the boil, then simmer until reduced by three-quarters. Stir in the 450ml stock then the barley, parsnips, carrots, celery and thyme. Season with salt and pepper and simmer for about 30 minutes until the vegetables are just tender and the barley softened. The 'hot pots' will continue cooking in the oven later on. Spoon the vegetables and any sauce (not the potatoes) into 6 deep ramekin or pie dishes, each about 200ml capacity. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C/gas 4. Thinly slice the potatoes using a mandolin or a knife. Season with salt and pepper, then arrange in a layer over the vegetables. Brush with olive oil or butter. Finish by placing the dishes (on a baking tray) in the oven for 30 minutes - or until the potatoes are cooked and browned and the vegetables heated through.

Bonus Bite Weekend Watch SATURDAY Harry Hill, ITV1, 7.30pm It might be Harresy to say it, but last week's episode was total spamfilter. Up your game, Hill. Great Outdoors Night, BBC4, 7.30pm Re-runs of Richard Wilson's Britain's Best Drives, 7.30pm and Ian Hislop on Scouts, 10.10pm and Britain's Love Affair With Caravans, 8pm Good Copy Bad Copy, Sky Arts1, 10.05pm Limited appeal, but tvBite is interested in the application of Copyright laws and the problems it throws up. SUNDAY Bear Grylls and Will Ferrell: Born Survivors, C4, 7.05pm The pair head to the Arctic, where Bear proves to Will that it might not be possible to churn out an over-long improvised sports comedy set in the 70s. Fringe, Sky1, 10pm Apparently this is good. We've never seen it. Porky's, E4, 10pm Ah, why not, eh? Should tvBite buy this? Anyone ever seen this? Tell us at editorattvbite.com

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