I'm going to be off watching The IT Crowd being filmed that day, but if you're interested, this looks promising, given the talent behind it:

Shush

17 October, BBC Television Centre

We'd like to invite you along to see two of Britain's top comedy actresses, Morwenna Banks (Saxondale, The Thick Of It, Absolutely) and Rebecca Front (Nighty Night, The Day Today, Knowing Me, Knowing You) joining forces in Shush, an absurd sitcom pilot set in an archaic library perpetually fighting the threat of closure.

Alice (Rebecca Front) a hopelessly romantic misfit and Snoo (Morwenna Banks) an indolent meddler are determined to prove to the library inspector Raff (Ben Willbond) that they can attract new readers and raise enough funds to save their library.

Meanwhile, Alice finally looks set to go on her dream date with Dean, the local porn-mag seller (Simon Greenall).

Produced by Armando Iannucci (I'm Alan Partridge, The Thick Of It, The Day Today) and written by Morwenna Banks, Rebecca Front and Arthur Mathews (Father Ted, Big Train).

The Cast also includes Michael Fenton-Stevens and Alex Macqueen.

Recording on Friday 17 October at BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, London. Doors open at 7pm.

To apply for tickets, call the BBC Ticket Line on 0370 901 1227

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• BBC4 gets record ratings
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• RTL gets the green light to put in bid for ITV
• Mark Gatiss writes a ghost story for the Beeb
• QI daytime spin-off planned

• CBS orders pilot for domestic comedy Big D
• Kevin Bacon to exec Showtime series about John Wilkes Booth and his brothers
• Will and Grace spin-off back on
• A chat with Life on Mars exec producer Josh Appelbaum

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• Lots and lots and lots and lots of Torchwood filming photos

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• Daredevil reboot being planned
• Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt to star in Every Day
• 300 sequel to take place before Battle of Plataea
• Yogi Bear - the movie

Commercials

• Monster Munch ads featuring Timmy Mallett and Geoffrey Hayes

Theatre

• Eddie Izzard to return to the West End for stand-up

German TV

• Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor to be remade as Ich Bin Boes

British TV

• Pulling pulled
• Heroes gets 3.1m viewers
• BSkyB could be forced to share content
• Beeb looking for Hollyoaks rival
• Five revives Going For Gold - without foreigners
• QI moves to BBC1

US TV

• The Life on Mars starter kit
• James L Martin to co-star on The Philanthropist
• AMC plans adaptation of Red Mars
• Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sex Money and Private Practice all return to bad ratings
• TheWB.com launching three new series
• Frasier's dad to play Michael Weston's dad on Burn Notice?
• Heroes' budget not high enough?

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Theatre

• Lenny Henry to play Othello

Music

• Dirty Pretty Things to split

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• Janice Hadlow to be the new controller of BBC2
• Female Peep Show spin-off planned
• Five picks up rights to The Mentalist

US TV

• Dexter premiere gets 1.2m viewers
• Fox picks up Fringe for a full season
• Partridge Family to be remade by NBC
• Chuck and Life ratings awful

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In the UK: Mondays, 4.35pm, BBC1
In the US: The SciFi Channel again, probably

Last series of The Sarah Jane Adventures posed something of a dilemma. Obviously, being a spin-off of Doctor Who featuring a former Doctor Who companion, comparisons with the mother ship were inevitable. Thing was, the comparison invariably became "Don't you think The Sarah Jane Adventures is more entertaining, more adult and more consistently higher quality than Doctor Who?" – even though ostensibly it was aimed at six year olds.

Now it's back, packed with action, continuity references and Sarah Jane fun. So again we have to ask, which one's better? We also have to ask, can we bear the shame of watching CBBC at our ages?

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• Green Lantern gets the green light

• BSkyB ordered to cut ITV stake
• Sky Movies secures the rights to Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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• Robert Duvall to produce a Pony Express series for AMC?
• Orlando Jones, Michael Weaver and Ivana Milicevic to play Norwegian detectives in Pushing Daisies
  
• Pic of Katie Holmes in Eli Stone
• Casting for more TNT dramas

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